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Bingo. AND he’s still offering $15 million for Everett community center and housing plus the $750k to Boston across the river. Look, if the NIMBY’s want to keep that potential off the table and let Mystic River be what it has been, then that is definitely the way things have almost always been...

This is a great new development on the edge of- - 400 new jobs in a very highly sought future industry (think the future of shipping and delivery and what that can unleash for cleaner transport energy/faster movement, etc). Plus, they will more than double the ground lease rent to the City than...

I appreciate your very thoughtful and in depth post on this. However, Kraft is offering much more than $750,000 to Boston - - this development is in Everett. “The community” is across the Mystic River. In addition to the Brownfields environmental cleanup of that area along the Mystic, from...

Yup, and also plenty of potential options on the casino/stadium riverside too. Both sides of that Mystic River could be primed to be activated with cafes, parks, etc.

Once again, you are using the word “now” regarding an open palette. And Franklin Park is NOT an open palette. It will have to change character to attract the consumer the Legacy are targeting. That screams economic failure on every level - - the choice is stark - -either respect the present...

…..and that’s just the beginning of what could be opened up if the leaders allowed the potential on both sides of the Mystic River there (Charlestown/Somerville/Medford - Chelsea/Everett/Malden).

Those suburban girls soccer families walking around Franklin Park and surrounding streets on a Wednesday night deciding where to eat??????? Sorry, but you’re going to have to do a LOT of very locally and politically unpopular displacement (people would be pissed and rightfully so to have to...

True. But the style and materials are nowhere near contextual with Fenway/Back Bay style red brick. And its platform is Seinfeld’s parents’ Del Boca Vista Phase II.

The replacing buildings were from the first half of the 20th century when the area was a polluting mess of toxic plants. Now we are in the 21st century and there is a huge white modern casino resort next door. The context is completely different in 2025 for that location. I love red brick as...

Context. It’s not in the Fens. It’s next to the Encore casino. You want red brick?

I respect you have a different opinion. Samsongam is giving me a far more informative and reasoned discussion on the matter than merely website “gotcha” arguments. As I noted all along - the proof will be in the pudding - we will see. I fervently hope I’m wrong, because if not, this would be...

Wait - you gave me a pop quiz and I obliged and listed 4 reasons - - and then you respond with THAT? 😂 But there it is, right there in your moving the goalposts response. That’s the Tommy Finneran line. The 1990’s was all Tom Finneran vs. Bob Kraft. Question: Who ended up providing...

Who says Kraft “feels neglected”??? He just wants to build the freaking stadium and get on with it. Wu is throwing up the roadblock. If Wu dropped it tomorrow, it gets done. Are you under ACTUALLY the impression that the delay is because “Kraft feels neglected”???? And btw, the cleanup...

1) “Too Many Balls” fiasco - you can google the ample recounting of this marketing malpractice 2). Team naming fiasco - another to Google 3) The sudden departure of Linda Henry Pizzutti from the ownership team (what’s the backstory there- did she decide to take up stamp collecting?) 4)...

I disagree with you about the NWSL. That league is growing steadily, has a good business plan and knows what they are doing. Relative level of play aside - the league has found the demographic key to its marketing and is succeeding as it hadn’t before. The Boston franchise, however, doesn’t...

Sounds like a lovely small town event! I too enjoy those simple pleasures in small suburbs going to minor league baseball games, etc. I’m sure that will increase the employment in Boston by several handfuls of jobs. That type of thinking sounds like the worry about buildings being too tall...

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I would assume a fully BPS facility would afford BPS 100% access 365 days per year for full sports seasons - especially football. So yeah, that is a trade-off that makes access issue ‘less than optimal’. Compared to NOW, yes, it is an expansion. Is it “optimal”. By...

Great High School stadium. No argument there. Let’s see how much it costs, who will pay the bills and how much access BPS students get. The first two items are undivulged at this point. The third is less than optimal.

Actually both. if the team doesn’t make it financially - that will hurt the city. The team will be on the line with financed debt - of a moving target where the final cost isn’t being divulged - versus defined rental costs, smaller ticket revenue from an 11,000 capacity vs 25,000, less...

When was the last Boston Mayor to lose re-election????? Curley almost a century ago, while in prison????? I happen to support Mayor Wu in most areas. This one, however, makes very little economic sense to me. We’ll see how it all plays out, but for now, Wu is not divulging the ACTUAL COST...