Great Comment On WBJ Column: Downsized Shrinking Developments Around Polar Park Raise Concerns About the Stadium Payoff Plan
MUST READ!!!!!
I just searched for and read to the Brad Kane editorial
which you reference. If you can you should post a link so people can
read it. I will say that the ball park is generally an improvement to
the area, with the exception of parking (which Masslive originally
reported -once).
I think the issue which I am concerned with is the promise that the expenditure of public funds on a private venture will not cost us any money and the lack of transparency by the City on the project generally. Getting facts out to the public is the basic function of an independent press and the WBJ is doing there job. Other media sources have reported on the delay in development, the downsizing of the Cove but non of these media sources put the articles in context, which the WBJ did.
This project is like no other project the City has undertaken, both in terms of approach, building a public building for the benefit of a private company, or scope, $175 million, and the public scrutiny should be raised accordingly. It is a shame that a local media source needs to fill this void because our local officials have abdicated their responsibilities.
*** Editor's note: We like how comment goes with our estimate of $175 million as to the cost of the ballpark. To date the actual final cost has not been released.
Heard there were less parking spots, but did not realize 160 spots ( a third) less!!
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I hope this isn’t true, but I fear that Ttey will be long gone in new jobs (hopefully not with the people who got TIFs and sweetheart deals) when the other shoe drops, still collecting public pensions and enjoying free health insurance that Woo taxpayers fund.
I hope it’s not true, But this I would not be a deviation from how many politicians around the country act.