MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

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BostonObserver said:
It may be for the second tower
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In recognition of this visionary gift, MGH will name the East Tower of the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building the Herb Chambers Tower

Massachusetts General Hospital Receives Transformational Gift of $100 Million from Herb Chambers to Revolutionize Cancer Care for Patients and Families

Massachusetts General Hospital has received a transformational gift of $100 million from entrepreneur, philanthropist, and proud Bostonian, Herb Chambers in support of a new state-of-the-art building designed to meet the growing demand for world-class cancer care.
www.massgeneral.org www.massgeneral.org
 
Red-Blue is supposedly projected to cost 850 million, 100 million towards that probably would have been a better use of the funds.
 
RandomWalk said:
A car dealer donating for transit improvements… that will be the day.
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Given that Herb was one of the most vociferous business opponents of A Line restoration back when that was being fought in the courts 30 years ago and personally lobbied Menino to get the residual emergency pocket track ripped out in front of his Brighton Ave. dealership...yeah, I'll say LOL.
 
East tower will be named after Herb Chambers. Maybe the west tower will have a naming opportunity with the entire building being named after Ragon
 
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I just walked by this earlier.. the podium facade on Cambridge St is horrible. Looks like a prison..
 
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Suffolk 83 said:
What do you mean, you people?

This is quite the leap. Careful, your true colors are coming out
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I already said what I had to say on this tangent, but it's probably worth noting that "you people," which I agree is a loaded term, is not the same as what @kmp1284 said, which was, "people like you." You are free to take that as meaning the same, but in this case, I'm pretty sure the meaning was more aimed at people who follow a certain rhetorical style, one that might be called muckraking, bomb throwing, or performative ranting.
 
Two things can be true at the same time:
- Our top institutions have done/are doing incredibly positive, impactful things, and are helping to spread best practices and critical expertise globally
- Our top institutions fail to reach many pockets of the community who would really benefit from them, and, given that they are magnets for donor dollars, are part of a system that keeps money flowing to areas that already have a ton of resources as opposed to those areas that most need resources

If you think about it, it's kind of a microcosm of a (the?) core theme of unease at the national (global?) level.

Yet, despite the fact that things are broken and need improvement, I am not in the "let's blow up the institutions" camp. They are still core to all of this, warts and all.
 
Guys, we don't care who's right. We don't come here to read arguments. Take five, please.

Anyway, 2024.12.22 peeking over MGH from the train at Science Park, on my way to the Amtrak to see my family for the holidays. Sorry for the terrible quality.
 

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Have the stress of the holidays gotten to everyone? Jesus Christ, yall need to step away from this forum and relax. You've all been here long enough to know how to act. I'm locking this for a week.
 
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