Bottom Line: The Corporations are not thinking this out for their employees. Most corporations could careless about their employees transit.
The city & state have dumped all the taxpayers money to promote the innovation district but in the end they never built the proper foundation to make the value always their.
The corporations will be flocking back to Downtown, Backbay, Kendall, Greenway. The areas with the Hardrails will be the future of Boston destination spots especially when they realize Seaport is very cold & miserable in the winter time.
I usually avoid countering these rants nowadays, but this is just too far off base again.
"Corporations" moved out to 128 because it was cheaper for them, then sold their employees on the oodles of free parking to make their lives easier. Because in our automobile driven lifestyles, sitting in gridlock for 1-2 hours each way is a better life.
Now corporations are moving to a district that is, as discussed numerous times, directly served by mass transit in the silver lines, plenty of buses, and 1/4 - 1/2 mile from south station and Aquarium meaning it's receiving commuter line suburbanites, city dwellers on the red and blue lines (plus those who make easy transfers, and this is not caring about employees transit how? (Not, to mention everyone of the existing parking spots from the lots are being replaced underground for those who just can't go without.
Corporations are spending more to be in the city (insert all the subsidy rants here you want, point is it still costs more for them to operate in the city) because their employees want to be in the city, and it looks better on them being in the hip growing city in the hip growing district.
We're never going to get you to like the dreaded bus, no matter how much it is in fact a subway. "Corporations" are already flocking to those places you mentioned. Kendall is still red hot, the back bay has yet to cool off, and downtown is seeing some resurgence, driven by residential at the moment. The seaport is still a blank slate with limitless potential and a lot of people willing to bet on it's future. I'm not saying these risk takers are smarter than you or not, but they are in a decision making position for a reason. It's a big risk moving to an as yet built neighborhood. They think it's worth the risk, and want in on the ground floor.
Having worked in the seaport for 8 years and walking to work from South Station 95% of those days..... the bridge can suck, other than that it's the same as everywhere. Hell, some folks I worked with would take the SL to Courthouse in the winter to avoid the bridge (wow a convenience that bus is). The harbor is not being on the ocean. It's desolate now because it's nothing but parking lots. When built out, many areas won't even see the water, never mind be affected by it. As it stands, the Seaport is neither more cold nor miserable than anywhere else when you're outside in the winter.
You're looking at it through today's eyes. Put on your back to the future glasses and consider your thoughts.
