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stick n move said:
Just heard on the sports hub that gov healey gave her support for the revs stadium today.
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She's from Charlestown, right? Big endorsement, then, if true!

Edit: actually a quick Google search is not really supporting that connection.
 
Blackbird said:
She's from Charlestown, right? Big endorsement, then, if true!

Edit: actually a quick Google search is not really supporting that connection.
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Banker and tradesman from an hour ago seems to confirm the same thing.

Healey Backs Everett Soccer Stadium​

By Gintautas Dumcius and Michael Jonas | CommonWealth Beacon | Jan 19, 2024 | Reprints | Print
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“The team looking to bring a soccer stadium to Everett’s waterfront appears to have a new center forward who could help them score a win: Gov. Maura Healey.

The proposal for the 25,000-seat stadium ran into trouble at the State House last year. Language meant to speed the project along was added into the Senate version of a closeout budget bill, but it was dropped from the final version of the bill, as the House’s lead negotiator, Boston Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, said there were “unanswered questions” about the environmental impact, and acknowledged concerns from the owners of nearby TD Garden about potential competition from the stadium.

“Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll support a soccer stadium in Everett that would deliver an important economic development opportunity for the region and state,” Karissa Hand, an administration spokesperson, said in a Thursday email to CommonWealth Beacon.

The statement does not go into detail on whether Healey backs speeding the project along through legislation that makes a zoning change.

The Kraft Group, which owns the New England Revolution soccer team and the New England Patriots, is seeking to build the stadium on a 43-acre parcel that’s along the Mystic River and across from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. The polluted site is home to a defunct power plant.

“We look forward to discussion with legislative and community members to ensure that this property is cleaned up, advances environmental justice, and is put to the best use for the community,” Hand said.

Healey’s administration, in addition to working on the annual state spending plan, is also planning to soon put out an economic development package. That could include language on the soccer stadium.

Sen. Sal DiDomenico, who represents Everett and has been a key proponent of the stadium project, calling it an “economic catalyst,” recently filed his own bill after the setback in last year’s closeout budget bill. The DiDomenico bill does not yet have a hearing date.

Everett city officials have signed an agreement with the Kraft Group that calls for the company to set aside $10 million for affordable housing, four acres for a public park, and $5 million for a new community center. The site is down the street from the Wynn casino that opened in 2019.

The Kraft family has long sought a place in the Boston area to put a soccer stadium. The Revolution currently play at Gillette Stadium, the Patriots’ home field in Foxborough.

They and other project proponents are looking to remove the parcel from its standing as a Designated Port Area, which supporters say will speed up the redevelopment process, since the designation limits what can be done to sites that can support marine industrial uses. But as Senate and House lawmakers weighed whether to lift the designation last year, the Conservation Law Foundation referred to the attempt to include such language in the closeout budget bill as an “end-run around the public process” and a “gift for well-connected developers.”

https://bankerandtradesman.com/healey-backs-everett-soccer-stadium/
 
Jeez - all the local shops are racing to report this - seems like the PR folks are busy.
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Short takes: Healey backs Everett soccer stadium

The New England Revolution's bid to bring a soccer stadium to Everett’s waterfront appears to have a new center forward who could help them score a win: Gov. Maura Healey.
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Vagabond said:
Jeez - all the local shops are racing to report this - seems like the PR folks are busy.
commonwealthbeacon.org

Short takes: Healey backs Everett soccer stadium

The New England Revolution's bid to bring a soccer stadium to Everett’s waterfront appears to have a new center forward who could help them score a win: Gov. Maura Healey.
commonwealthbeacon.org commonwealthbeacon.org
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Indeed.

Talk is cheap. But almost certainly the proposed stadium project site is included in her soon-to-be-released economic development package. The package will have a lengthy list of communities receiving money.. For Everett, and this particular site, the monies would probably be directed toward environmental studies, remediation studies, transportation studies, resiliency studies. Somebody probably read an advance copy of the package. Advance copies allow legislators to shout "Huzzah!" on the package 's public release.

It will be interesting to see whether the state's funding is matched by other parties, and whether Boston gets a share.

I believe the economic development package is part of the state budget submission. The state budget submission is being sent to Beacon Hill next week.
 
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stick n move said:
Banker and tradesman from an hour ago seems to confirm the same thing.

Healey Backs Everett Soccer Stadium​

By Gintautas Dumcius and Michael Jonas | CommonWealth Beacon | Jan 19, 2024 | Reprints | Print
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“The team looking to bring a soccer stadium to Everett’s waterfront appears to have a new center forward who could help them score a win: Gov. Maura Healey.

The proposal for the 25,000-seat stadium ran into trouble at the State House last year. Language meant to speed the project along was added into the Senate version of a closeout budget bill, but it was dropped from the final version of the bill, as the House’s lead negotiator, Boston Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, said there were “unanswered questions” about the environmental impact, and acknowledged concerns from the owners of nearby TD Garden about potential competition from the stadium.

“Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll support a soccer stadium in Everett that would deliver an important economic development opportunity for the region and state,” Karissa Hand, an administration spokesperson, said in a Thursday email to CommonWealth Beacon.

The statement does not go into detail on whether Healey backs speeding the project along through legislation that makes a zoning change.

The Kraft Group, which owns the New England Revolution soccer team and the New England Patriots, is seeking to build the stadium on a 43-acre parcel that’s along the Mystic River and across from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. The polluted site is home to a defunct power plant.

“We look forward to discussion with legislative and community members to ensure that this property is cleaned up, advances environmental justice, and is put to the best use for the community,” Hand said.

Healey’s administration, in addition to working on the annual state spending plan, is also planning to soon put out an economic development package. That could include language on the soccer stadium.

Sen. Sal DiDomenico, who represents Everett and has been a key proponent of the stadium project, calling it an “economic catalyst,” recently filed his own bill after the setback in last year’s closeout budget bill. The DiDomenico bill does not yet have a hearing date.

Everett city officials have signed an agreement with the Kraft Group that calls for the company to set aside $10 million for affordable housing, four acres for a public park, and $5 million for a new community center. The site is down the street from the Wynn casino that opened in 2019.

The Kraft family has long sought a place in the Boston area to put a soccer stadium. The Revolution currently play at Gillette Stadium, the Patriots’ home field in Foxborough.

They and other project proponents are looking to remove the parcel from its standing as a Designated Port Area, which supporters say will speed up the redevelopment process, since the designation limits what can be done to sites that can support marine industrial uses. But as Senate and House lawmakers weighed whether to lift the designation last year, the Conservation Law Foundation referred to the attempt to include such language in the closeout budget bill as an “end-run around the public process” and a “gift for well-connected developers.”

https://bankerandtradesman.com/healey-backs-everett-soccer-stadium/
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These edibles must be kickin’ in.

Healey backs this? Wow. I’m impressed. Good move. I’m with her on this. Bravo, Governor.

So, this is now on Kraft to f*ck it up. Hope he doesn't. I also hope that he learns from January 1997 not to start building without approval.
 
I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk?
I see all of the Casino parking, all of the Gateway Center (my map doesn't recognize properly the new Northern Strand extension path under the tracks), Sullivan Square lots, and even all of the Assembly garages.
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Vagabond said:
I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many available spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk?
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That map also shows that there are two Orange Line stations within that 20 minute walking catchment. I suspect people will be able to get there.
 
Vagabond said:
I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many available spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk?
I see all of the Casino parking, all of the Gateway Center (my map doesn't recognize properly the new Northern Strand extension path under the tracks, Sullivan Square lots, and even all of the Assembly garages.
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If/when the Assembly Station ped bridge extends to Draw 7 Park and meets the landing for proposed Mystic River Pedestrian Bridge, that'll unlock several thousand parking spaces at Assembly Row within 20-minute walk.
East of Broadway, currently under review, is proposing 2,000+ parking spaces literally next door to this stadium.
425 Medford Street in Charlestown (the big master plan project next to Schraffts, opposite side of river from stadium site) had 1,600+ parking spaces proposed last I saw.
Hood has several hundred parking spaces. 66 Cambridge Street (the development adjacent to I-93 NB exit ramp) has 487 sub surface spots.

Honestly, if Revs' games are scheduled off-peak (i.e. not during the M-F 9a-5p workday), there could easily be 5,000+ available parking spaces in that 20-minute walk-shed you shared. I haven't even considered residential garages or surface parking lots in that estimate--MAPC's Better Fit Parking studies make the case that newer multi-family garages rarely fill. Add to that any further parking structures that get built by Davis Cos. or others at the Everett Tank Farm for commercial office/manufacturing users, and you're really looking at a saturation of car-parking opportunities here comparable to other existing urban sports facilities (Fenway Park, TD Garden).

Given the majority of alternatives highlighted in the Silver Line Extension Analysis that use Lower Broadway, I genuinely do think that transit connectivity to this site from points north and south may improve greatly. Folks from the North Shore could theoretically one day take the Newburyport/Rockport commuter rail to Chelsea Station and hop on a 1-mile silver line bus ride or shuttle service to the stadium.

3/8 EDIT: How timely that MBTA released the Silver Line Extension Final Report today!
 
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Even the Whoop Building in Kenmore, in this location, is a net positive over Chernobyl here. So yeah let's get this done, leveraging the continuation in environmental clean-up and re-vitalization of the river.
 
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Gunner02 said:
Even the Whoop Building in Kenmore, in this location, is a net positive over Chernobyl here. So yeah let's get this done, leveraging the continuation in environmental clean-up and re-vitalization of the river. Even if it is a stadium, this is a world-class city*. That's where sports teams are and stadiums are. It's a thing. If the Pats had a stadium here, they'd be valued far further above the 5bil they are.
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Not sure if serious
 
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Blackbird said:
These photos are changing my mind about whether (if possible) it might not be cool to keep the smoke stacks around post-redevelopment for purely aesthetic reasons.
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Ugh god please no! They look so out of place and antiquated with all of the new, modern development going up around it. When they're out in a suburban setting, fine, but they are eyesore here. With expensive hotel rooms around, who wants a view staring out at smokestacks?? I used to wonder, 20 years ago, if it was possible to surround the stacks with "building-looking" coverings to disguise them, but now that they're not being used, just tear them the hell down!
 
stick n move said:
I definitely think the stacks the grey building and the brick building would be nice if they could be repurposed, kind of like 9 elms with battery power station in london but not as extreme.

There definitely are redeeming qualities here.

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-call me crazy but the weird rainbow geometric art looks ridiculous.
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I suspect those structures (and the ground they sit on) are hazmat nightmares. They are going to be costly to tear down, much less clean them up enough to be used for something habitable.
 
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Ugh god please no! They look so out of place and antiquated with all of the new, modern development going up around it. When they're out in a suburban setting, fine, but they are eyesore here. With expensive hotel rooms around, who wants a view staring out at smokestacks?? I used to wonder, 20 years ago, if it was possible to surround the stacks with "building-looking" coverings to disguise them, but now that they're not being used, just tear them the hell down!
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Yes, this really should have been leveled for some office park caliber architecture and a soccer field that gets maybe a few dozen days of use.

Fortunately for you this region lacks the population and resources to undertake such a project.
 
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