Re: Twenty Two Liberty @ Fan Pier | 22 Liberty Drive | Seaport
Stel – My point was not that Anthony Athanas was the ideal developer for Fan Pier nor for that matter were the Pritzkers
We all know how Anthony acquired the near-useless land over the years as the railroads abandoned it, structured a deal to lease the land as the site for a Grand Hyatt Hotel, and then suddenly got greedy in his dealing with the Pritzkers
We also know that Anthony’s Pier 4 was the preferred venue for a generation of “Democrat Times” where a lot of funds were raised for political purposes – e.g. John Joseph Moakley, Tip O’neil, William Bulger, etc.
My purpose for asking the question about access to the water and Fan Pier had to do with:
The hypocrisy of the complaints about privacy and such concerning access to the water along Fan Pier without any reference to the “Special Deal” arranged in the middle of the night that bailed Anthony out of bankruptcy.
The willing buyer just happened to be the General Services Administration – aka the American Tax Payer. And this was despite its low rating as a site of a replacement Federal Courthouse because of transportation difficulties. Moakley and company just conveniently arranged a new bridge and the Silver Line and viola we got the Moakley Federal Courthouse and Anthony could keep Pier 4 for his heirs.
Even Jack Anderson called the subsequent $250 M Moakley Court House, the Taj Mahal of Justice – arranged by Steven Brier by the way.
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Jun 22, 1994 - calls the ``Taj Mahal'' of federal courthouses. ... Boston restauranteur Anthony Athanas, was embroiled in a legal battle with the Pritzker family p…
Subsequently, the Congress put a moratorium on building new Court Houses that pushed into the Taj Mahal category.
Thus: if we are to complain about access to the land / water that was the residue the courts passed to the Pritzkers as a settlement for Anthony’s legal problems
Therefore: fairness demands that we should also complain about the other half of the deal where the Fed’s purchased the Fan Pier corner site as a political favor.
