Losing Stature

Major challenge for the red-do of the MOS how to accommodate all the tourists who now and more in the future enter the MOS as different types of users:
1) Traditional view the exhibits
2) Just want a show in the Planetarium, Omni/Imax. 3D Digital Cinema, Butterfly Place or new multi-role "sky theatre"
3) Waiting for a Duck Tour --rapidly growing group
4) Just wanting to be hanging in the Food Court or Museum Shop
5) Dining in the new destination restaurant
6) Partaking in some or all of the above

Each needs different types of access control and ticketing -- eventually the new MOS design currently taking shape will have multiple door and multiple zones for different types of access

All this is in process -- gradually and in some cases below the surface -- in some cases starting to be visible {look at the lowest floor of the parking garage from the Charles and you'll see the windows of the new 30,000 sq ft. Gordon National Center for Technological Literacy}

Stay tuned for more on this topic ? as MOS undertakes a ?one every few decades?? multi- hundreds of $M investment in redesign - renovation -- repurposing and new construction

Westy
 
Boston really needs to build more hotel rooms. It really is prohibitively expensive to stay here, and there are no cheap alternatives. DT Boston is too compact. Developers should be given incentives to build in the other parts of Boston. Imagine safe and decent hotels on the orange and red lines outside DT, or waterfront hotels on the blue line in Revere (along with the casino at Suffolk Downs).
 
The SBW feels like it's becoming one giant hotel room...too bad the tourists who stay there frequently ask the front desk for directions "to Boston".
 
To which the kid from Savin Hill at the desk replies:

'Tourists to the north, college students to the west and taxpayers to the south.' 'Tourists and students can take the Silver Line, taxpayers have to walk.'
 
College students and toruists pay taxes as well, just not as much as residents.

On an unrelated note, this certainly helps Boston stature.

Report: Boston College Chief Executives' Club a top forumBoston Business Journal
The Boston College Chief Executives' Club of Boston has been named the number two-ranked CEO event in the world and the top forum of its type in the United States, according to a report released this month by public relations firm Weber Shandwick.

The Chief Executives' Club of Boston, which operates in association with Boston College's Carroll School of Management, was listed behind only the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, among business groups that build thought leadership, executive visibility and reputation enhancement in a world-wide venue.

Weber Shandwick said the rankings are based on a "Five Star Conference" study of CEOs and C-level executives in the world's top 50 most admired companies. Other venues in the Top 5 speaker forum ranking are Fortune Innovation/Fortune iMeme, Fortune Global and The Wall Street Journal's "D".

The Chief Executives' Club of Boston sponsors regular invitation-only luncheon events that provide a forum for the discussion of issues and challenges facing business.



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