RandomWalk
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Because hotels and retail aren’t getting financed, and labs need big floor plates.
Because hotels and retail aren’t getting financed, and labs need big floor plates.
It’s a terrible location for a hulking lab building.
North Station area could use more non-Gov jobs.
It's very close to MGH. IMO it makes sense.The city should take the land and make it a park or some other for-the-public space. It’s a terrible location for a hulking lab building.
Verizon, Converse, and State Street aren’t enough?
Poftak displayed the photograph of the column, covered in thick rusty-brown and white discoloration and bolstered by reinforcing steel, during a meeting of the agency’s board of directors. It was discovered last month as part of inspections into the structural integrity of the Government Center Garage, which partially collapsed in late March, killing a construction worker and also shuttering Orange and Green Line service there.
oftak and the MBTA again asserted that each of the seven support columns underneath Haymarket station “are the responsibility of HYM” — and the transit agency intends to hold the developer financially responsible. HYM has already picked up the cost of shuttle buses for riders during the shutdown and bolstering the deteriorated column with two newly constructed support beams, Poftak said.
I guess it's no wonder the developer rolled back plans to build over the station if said station is being held up by sh*t like that!
I'm also a little confused about why maintaining station infrastructure is HYM's responsibility. I'm sure they aren't the ones that let it get that bad down there.
I might be wrong but I don't think the city has owned the garage since the 1980s right? https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/810116/000091412101500257/de-yieldplus_ex993.txtThey bought the garage from the City - that includes all the liabilities. It's not their fault, but it's their problem.
They bought the garage from the City - that includes all the liabilities. It's not their fault, but it's their problem.
They bought the garage from the City - that includes all the liabilities. It's not their fault, but it's their problem.
^I'm pretty sure they bought the garage a long time ago...
Exactly. Contracts are contracts. Gov't often fails b/c we don't let it use business best practices when it is in business, be it RE dev or running a transit system.^I'm pretty sure they bought the garage a long time ago...
Needs more Palladian windows. And a bigger parking lot.