If you give a tax break to liberty mutual and vertex, there's no principle-driven reason not to give it to a stadium
This is just a power play by Bob Kraft, using every big Boston business's favorite mouthpiece Shirley Leung, to put public pressure on the BTU to lower their demands.
Now we wait for the next move in this game of development chess.
Please don't pitchfork me for reviving this thread--I have no news, just a question that hopefully yields answers.
Has Columbus Park 'stadium' at Joe Moakley Park in South Boston ever seriously been discussed or considered for a redevelopment into a soccer stadium? Given its proximity to JFK and the Expo site (as well as the land to expand), it strikes me as a logical option for converting into a multi-use, private/public soccer stadium that can be shared between New England Revolution and local/minor league soccer teams. Do we know who uses the stadium now?
Please don't pitchfork me for reviving this thread--I have no news, just a question that hopefully yields answers.
Has Columbus Park 'stadium' at Joe Moakley Park in South Boston ever seriously been discussed or considered for a redevelopment into a soccer stadium? Given its proximity to JFK and the Expo site (as well as the land to expand), it strikes me as a logical option for converting into a multi-use, private/public soccer stadium that can be shared between New England Revolution and local/minor league soccer teams. Do we know who uses the stadium now?
Why would South Boston want to give up one of its treasured parks? Honestly, every neighborhood in Boston should have large parks and great rec centers like Southie.
Which will get built first:
1. Revolution Stadium
2. Green Line Extension
Which will get built first:
1. Revolution Stadium
2. Green Line Extension
I think this is Somerville's second chance. For them it would make sense to fork over money to get it. In the long run it would give Somerville such a much stronger idependent identity from Cambridge and Boston and at the same time make it more connected to those cities.
Can't umass sell the bayside land to cover their garage and deficits or did they start using it?
It seems pretty clear to me that Kraft has no interest in building a new Stadium for soccer. Every few years he picks a new neighborhood and engages in a half baked effort to start something in order to appease Don Garber and the Revs fans. Inner belt/wonderland/UMass. He's happy to have suburban families visiting Patriots place. Eventually they'll rebuild Gillette again 'with soccer in mind'.
The only way to change this is for Revs fans to organize, boycott buying season tickets next season and try to force a franchise sale.