TheRifleman
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I agree with you on all the positives and most of the negatives. However, North Station and Kenmore are 2 impressive mass transit stations, and some of the nicest looking in a mostly underwhelming MBTA system. I've heard some people (perhaps including yourself) knocking the North Station area for not being grimy enough before, and I just don't see it. It was simply unpleasant to go to the Garden and the area around it before, and the new station is efficient and beautiful, an achievement for which the T doesn't get enough credit.
As for the Wrigley thing: I appreciate the vision, but as someone who lives in Chicago at the moment, Wrigleyville would be impossible to develop on the waterfront. Heck, even the Cubs can't develop any more of it in Wrigleyville. Good authentic neighborhoods take decades to develop, one small lot at a time. I don't know if Hynes and Fallon will do something nice in SBW, but I am very happy Fenway is in Kenmore and not in a sea of parking lots marking a failed "Ballpark Village", with no real transit access.
As for the tax breaks, I think we're jumping the gun a little. It's tax breaks, not a payout. I have no idea how this deal is structured, but I'll guess that the city has given up some portion of it's tax revenue on the site for some period of years (5 to 10). Since the land should be worth much more now than it was as parking, one would hope the city has only cut into that revenue increase to allow that increase to take place. They aren't losing money, they're making less so they'll make any at all (if I'm totally off-base, sorry about that).
Of course, if Boston didn't offer that deal, Burlington would, or Raleigh. I, for one, am happy to see something built here. It can only get better.
Agree 100% about the Transit systems. I never said I didn't like the new garden. I said the area around it has not evolved very well.
Also concerning my vision about the Wrigley field type development towards the Seaport District, which should have planned a new underground transit system in the first step. The only way to justify this type of cost to the taxpayers is if the Seaport District could have generated significant amounts of unlimited tax revenue in the future. With Patriots Place and a New Fenway Park with a TON of Residential units built around it we really could have had something special and unique here. Kraft has the right vision for Patriots place but the Location for him SUCKS. It will be very difficult for him in the future to make Foxboro a destination type area especially when the Pats become mediocre team.
The first thing the city planners should have done for Seaport was to outline a draft for an expansion for a underground transit if this was even possible to dig underground. This automatically would make Seaport very desirable place in the future.
About jumping the gun on tax breaks. First off Vertex would have never left Mass. Right now their are too many Biotechs interwind with the unversities and are also competing for the talent coming out of the schools which will continue in this area until the Biosector changes.
I am very pissed off that we gave tax breaks to Liberty Mutual, Developer Joe Fallon, Evergreen, and now they want to build a Convention Center with 200 Million in tax dollars. This is how these LIBTARDS stay in power using taxpayers money to buy off the union votes so they can stay in POWER.
The Unions are 100% at fault to blame for all this theft. They deserve to lose their PENSIONS at this point for voting for this scum.
Liberty Mutual Tax Break really has me disgusted more than anything. 46.5 Million dollar break to a fucking insurance company that banks hundreds of millions in profits a MONTH.
"It's tax breaks, not a payout."
Ask yourself this if your a business owner. Why am I not getting taxbreaks as the city is actually creating more taxes
BID
Greenway Tax
Non-Profit Tax
Just shows how manipulated these political hacks are.
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