Boston 2024

The budget, from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nooshies/status/580860388234919936

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The owners of the New Boston Food Market at Widett Circle say they're not interested in selling their property so it can be used for the Olympic Stadium but they also say they are willing to listen to an offer from Boston 2024 "but would only accept if it meant moving to another location with similar facilities, a central location with ready access to rail service and major roads."

So, does Beacon Park Yard qualify? Is the city thinking a land-swap might work? The rail yard is owned by the Commonwealth / MassPike / DOT / MBTA, no? (I know someone said that Harvard owns some of it, too? And, Boston University is offering to pay for some of the cost of the new station if it gets what it wants?)

Is everyone just playing games and that's what's in the cards and we just can't see them?

I don't know how large a space they have at Widett compared to Beacon Park Yard (I use that name b/c that's what Wikipedia calls it) - would it work?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...lsh-pledges/K30ktLS1MAETRrnEOz3tqL/story.html
 
^They're not saying any of that. They're making it be known that there are theoretical offers under which they would sell, but that the ball is in their court to basically dictate whatever price they damned please.
 
By the produce market in Everett / Chelsea. Rail, highway, trucking. It makes perfect sense. A big parcel just came on the market too
 
A thought just crossed my mind about the hotel rooms requirement for Boston 2024. Could Boston use cruise ships to hotel visitors during the olympic games? Assuming some sort of temporary docking access was extended into Boston Harbor somewhere (like the docks you see at Caribbean ports), it's not the most ridiculous idea. Port Everglades at Fort Lauderdale has handled up to 15 cruises and 53,000 passengers in a single day--a world record.

If Boston was logistically capable of coordinating even a fraction of those #'s... say 3 or 4 mega ships with about 12,000 passenger capacity... and just keep them docked for 2-4 weeks here, that would be a lot more cost efficient I'd think than racing to add rooms for the sake of winning the bid.
 
Dec did this for DEC World87. They brought in the QEII and the Oceania (?) and docked them at Commonwealth Pier for a big trade show. As I remember they used them both for hotel rooms and additional meeting space.
 
BeeLine said:
Dec did this for DEC World87. They brought in the QEII and the Oceania (?) and docked them at Commonwealth Pier for a big trade show. As I remember they used them both for hotel rooms and additional meeting space.
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This was done at the Jacksonville Superbowl and it was widely panned.
 
I didn't know that about the 2004 Olympics, but that's exactly what I had in mind. However, I was thinking the cruise ships would be exclusively for visitors and spectators traveling here for the weekend--NOT the athletes. I'm pretty sure the IOC now requires all athletes to live in the designated athletes' villages for the games anyway.
 
I'm not sure if it has been posted already, but do the No Boston 2024 supporters that say "better transit, no Olympic Games" realize that there could be a higher possibility of better transit if we get the games? The 2024 committee keeps repeating that the games would be a catalyst for current and scheduled projects, and that the games themselves will "force" the state to update its infrastructure.
At this point I still haven't decided on whether I would like to see the games in Boston, (I'm leaning towards yes) but I don't understand the arguments over infrastructure, as it seems to me that the games will bring new, better, and larger scale infrastructure projects to the city and state.

P.S. According to my Twitter, pull the bid is trending in Boston.
 
I can respond but would like to hear more from you. How do you see an Olympics in Boston bringing "new, better, and larger scale infrastructure projects to the city and state"?

Do you have an example or examples of what type of project(s) might be undertaken that wouldn't be otherwise by the city and/or state? Would these projects be undertaken because of the needs of the city and/or state or because they would be necessary in order to make an Olympics successful, or both? Where would the funds necessary for these projects come from - city, state, and/or federal governments or would you expect that the backers of the Olympics would pay?
 
Disaster looming. USOC denies claims that they are thinking of withdrawing the Boston bid, but reports keep coming out...

Report: USOC May Drop Boston's 2024 Olympic Bid If Public Support Doesn't Rally
The USOC was quick to deny the report, but it's another uneasy moment for Boston 2024.

Hayden Bird
03/31/15 @2:34pm in Sports

After months of deteriorating support, a report has now emerged that Boston 2024, the city's struggling Olympic bid, could be cancelled before it even gets off the ground by the United States Olympic Committee. According to CNBC, who tweeted out an alert, the USOC is seriously considering pulling the latest U.S. Olympic bid (for the 2024 Summer Games) if public support doesn't improve.

A Wall Street Journal article that was published shortly after the CNBC tweet also alleged that the USOC was considering pulling the bid. The article's author, Matthew Futterman, made the claim based on "people familiar with the organization’s plans."

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/...ublic-support-doesnt-improve-per-cnbc-report/
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Boston's provincialism is famous nationwide. I'm not surprised the USOC is getting jittery.
 
datadyne007 said:
Disaster looming. USOC denies claims that they are thinking of withdrawing the Boston bid, but reports keep coming out...
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Whatever that source heard (if anything) could just have been rumblings that the USOC would pull out if Boston 2024 loses the referendum. I don't see how it could pull out before then, really. There would have to be some event that craters public support about the bid (not the snow, which cratered the public mood in general and had nothing to do with the bid) that would convince them that support could never recover and give them an actual reason to pull out.

I don't think the USOC could defend just killing the bid one day, out of the blue, because No Boston Olympics still exists. It would do a lot of damage to their relationships with rich and powerful people, and it would seriously discourage other US cities from working with them in the future.
 
A survey firm called me last night about Boston 2024 support. They wouldn't tell me who sponsored it.
 
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