Uh, let's not kick Gillette out please? They provide jobs manufacturing useful products, and seem quite profitable. We don't have a lot of this kind of industry left.
Ron, I would never want Gillette the company to leave area.
However, Gillette the 5-football field long low slung BUILDING should be gently and economically encouraged to build a really cool mini city (a la New Balance) along the Mystic River or Quincy (being that their plant needs waterfront access).
I think you would agree the current low slung, sprawling Gillette building that is splayed across what could potentially be a spectacular - one of a kind - urban space (Good Lord - - just imagine for a moment what Fort Point Channel could actually be some day) is as much of a spectacular waste of premium space as the USPS facility.
It would be a classic win-win scenario for the city to offer an economic incentive for Gillette to leave that plot of land - - and then sell the land to the highest bidding (and hopefully best plan) developer for a major project to truly accentuate the Channel as an iconic (yup - I said it!) urban space.
No one wants Gillette to up and leave the Greater Boston area and take their jobs with them.