Does this mean City Hall stays where it is?
By adamg - Sun, 09/30/2007 - 7:36am.
Adam Reilly noticed an interesting omission in yesterday's Globe story about Tom Menino's idea for building a wind turbine on City Hall Plaza: The story doesn't mention anything about his earlier plans to move City Hall to South Boston.
Does this mean Menino's abandoned that proposal or Globe reporters have long-term memory problems and never thought to ask hizzona how building a windmill for a building that soon might not exist makes sense. Also missing from the story: Any comment from the federal government, which owns the JFK building and which thus put the kibosh on the mayor's last major proposal for the plaza: Building a hotel on it.
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"It could become a landmark,
"It could become a landmark, part of the skyline," like the giant new Ferris wheel on the Thames River in London, said Rich Miller, a Bentley College business student from Lexington who was passing by yesterday.
Somewhere (well we know exactly where) the Zakim Bridge is pouting in jealousy and vowing to scuttle this project.
From the air
I knew exactly where I was when my plane dropped out of the clouds the last time I flew into Boston - the two wind towers in Hull of the starbord side of the aircraft told me that I was directly over my MIL's place in Weymouth.
Personally, I love wind towers. I think the IBEE tower in Dorchester is far more beautiful than the radio/cel tower in the same area. While "different" and "new" do not always mean "a good idea", I'm quite baffled at the local predilection to fear/loathe any change to anything or anything new in the area.
City Hall and the Fed
Word has it that the FBI has outgrown its current headquarters and/or GSA (the Fed's real estate arm) has decided that the government plaza property is no longer sufficient for the FBI. This (potential) divestment of the government plaza property may allow the City or a developer of City Hall Plaza/the current City Hall site more flexibility in what it does with the land.