City Hall Plaza Revamp | Government Center

The thingy that's being built near the JFK building, is that going to be for a concert stand? :unsure:
 
IF I remember correctly, this land was dug up for a rehab several years ago. Now it's being dug up for a rehab again?!! Also, I somehow KNEW that the once-planned Ferris Wheel would become a damn pipe dream! Just like the once-planned People Mover at Logan Airport. That became a pipe dream, also! :unsure:
 
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That's genius, man. I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while.
 
Doesn't look that close to my eyes. This is taking way too long. Will it be done by this summer?
 
There's not much bang for the buck happening on this one. A better fiscal approach would have been to sell off a couple of parcels for new high-rise building development which, as part of an agreement, would have funded much of this plaza reconfiguration work.
 
That or even trying to lay down a couple streets and some low rise buildings to create a real european style enclosed square that was always intended from the beginning but never achieved, because it had none of the elements that make those places successful besides the bricks on the ground.
 
stick n move said:
That or even trying to lay down a couple streets and some low rise buildings to create a real european style enclosed square that was always intended from the beginning but never achieved, because it had none of the elements that make those places successful besides the bricks on the ground.
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I was thinking along the same lines, but with a couple of high rises (with good ground-level retail presence) added to the mix.
 
A time lapse of the Government Center garage demolition would probably capture the evolution of some flora or fauna as well.
 
Why it took so long just to throw a couple trees in there is crazy.
 
I gotta say . . . this looks disappointing sadly (I'll hold final judgment until it's completed though).
 
It reminds me of a suburban shopping center with carnival rides set up in the parking lot.
 
Here with the pressing questions: Celtics. If they win (which there’s a good chance they will), where will they address the crowd? Inside the Garden?
 
Here a couple other tests for the new plaza.
Snow plows in the winter or food trucks in the summer; you know a couple of trees will be run over each year.
The police will recommend cutting down the trees once the first mugging happens.
Homeless will string a couple hammocks between the trees and shelter in the playground structures and claim the plaza as an Autonomous Zone.
 
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