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I wish the City would just report the costs and their current financial projections. There are polar opposites when it comes to this project.
- On one side there are the baseball fans, both in the City and from the Towns who think the ballpark is the greatest thing regardless of the cost.
- Then there are the Augustusites who call anyone who asks a question or expresses a contrary opinion as being the old Worcester negative crowd.
- On the other side you have people who probably care less about baseball but have concerns about their taxes going up or their street not being paved because money has been diverted to the ballpark (count me in this group).
- You also have a group questioning why the WooSox are not paying taxes.
- Then you have a group that philosophically did not agree that using public funds to enrich a private company.
The City could easily end these arguments by reporting their financials but it is in their best interest to sit back and let the factions criticizes other comments.
I will agree with a comment that has been previously made that if the financials were good the City would have reported them by now. I would also like to recount that in one of the articles on the bond ratings the agency showed how they were going to cover the deficits.
Transparency is the best solution.
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I am leaving for work right now and will drive thru Kelley Sq and I will look at the apartment being built. I will ask myself the same question I do every morning. Shouldn't this be going up faster than it is. In this residential market you would think the developer would be racing to get the buildings up. A good comparison that I will be able to see will be the Table Talk construction. The started the demolition, let's see how fast their construction goes.
For a project that was announce almost four years ago i thought I would have seen more than the City built ball park and garage and a half completed foundation for apartments.