Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph)
Indeed, most of the folks of savethebostony.com that I know are no longer members of the Y. The youth truly hurt by what will be a diminshed facility have very few options. Article 80 will be a footnote in any development scheme yet we will not have the advantages of a freer, albeit not completely free market.
Yes, the majority of adult members have been absorbed into other gyms. The incompetence of the national Y leaders and the ca$h grab by the plaintiffs made this a done deal that will be duplicated elsewhere.
"Lost"? Yes, this is a 1 party city that values educational institutions above virtually everything. NU had the opportunity to build more than the 720 beds of this tower.
The building of this tower will have an effect for 2 or 3 years until the next expansion. NU's already begun to "take care of" Carter Playground.
Excuse me? Maybe you have been living in your mom's basement for a majority of your life but if I remember, the down economy impacted basically every private university's endowment and ability to spend. Unfortunately Northeastern doesn't have the endowment size of Harvard and unfortunately for Northeastern, they had to listen to the whiny complaints of you community residents who doesn't understand basic economics.
No, NU's argument is something like this:
"We are obligated (or more like forced) to expand to increase the % of students staying in our dorms even during a down economy because the local residents are being out-competed by college students."
You know what would have been a smart investment? If Northeastern University bought all the residential housing surrounding the university and flipped it into dorms. They tried that once and was rebuked by the city. Not to mention activists would never allowed this to happen.
You know what your community activist group's argument sound like?
"We are too poor to pay a membership fee high enough or recruit enough members that the Y can fund renovation on their own so we're going to make an excuse by saying we want to save the Y because it's incredibly historical and all the programs that are currently being run are being halted (even though in reality, we could care less, we're just using it as an excuse and yes we know those programs will continue after the renovation and will be running just as well)."
Go away troll. You lost. Deal with it.
And if you're going to complain so much of it, why don't you boycott the Y for the rest of your life and go find some other gym. With all these complaints, maybe NEU shouldn't keep its promise and flood 700 students into the community so that you guys can enjoy higher rent. I mean, by fighting this project, you guys are only shooting yourself in the foot.
Indeed, most of the folks of savethebostony.com that I know are no longer members of the Y. The youth truly hurt by what will be a diminshed facility have very few options. Article 80 will be a footnote in any development scheme yet we will not have the advantages of a freer, albeit not completely free market.
Yes, the majority of adult members have been absorbed into other gyms. The incompetence of the national Y leaders and the ca$h grab by the plaintiffs made this a done deal that will be duplicated elsewhere.
"Lost"? Yes, this is a 1 party city that values educational institutions above virtually everything. NU had the opportunity to build more than the 720 beds of this tower.
The building of this tower will have an effect for 2 or 3 years until the next expansion. NU's already begun to "take care of" Carter Playground.