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    Government Center closing for 2 years for upgrades

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    • Beginning Saturday, the Government Center T station will close for an $82 million overhaul that is expected to last until spring 2016.
      Barry Chin/Globe staff
      Beginning Saturday, the Government Center T station will close for an $82 million overhaul that is expected to last until spring 2016.
    • The project will be capped by innovative landscaping and a gleaming, four-story glass headhouse designed to reshape the look and feel of dreary, windswept City Hall Plaza.
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      The project will be capped by innovative landscaping and a gleaming, four-story glass headhouse designed to reshape the look and feel of dreary, windswept City Hall Plaza.
    • Most of the construction — and the reason the project is scheduled to take more than two years to complete — will occur underground and behind the scenes.
      Barry Chin/Globe Staff
      Most of the construction — and the reason the project is scheduled to take more than two years to complete — will occur underground and behind the scenes.
    • Parts of the station date to 1898, and it has not seen a major renovation since the 1960s.
      Barry Chin/Globe Staff
      Parts of the station date to 1898, and it has not seen a major renovation since the 1960s.
    • Once completed, the revamped station will be handicapped accessible.
      Barry Chin/Globe Staff
      Once completed, the revamped station will be handicapped accessible.
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