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Protest against moving City Hall

It would be like moving Fenway Park to Stoughton.

Especially to the warehouse district.

an unpopular opinion

By coffeeweasel | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:01am

I wish they would move Fenway Park to Stoughton! (Or anywhere else that doesn't make commuting by T more unpleasant than it already is.)

More on the City Hall hearing

By adamg | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:10am

Cyntillating was there and files a report:

Last night Michael Flaherty of Boston City Council held a public hearing where, for the first time, the Boston Redevelopment Authority was forced to hear public opinion. Intellectualism attempted to deafen the ears of Director John Palmieri and Director of planning Kairos Shen but on some level the authority accepted that the needs and wants of the public should have been taken into consideration before planning the move of City Hall. ...

Christ

By yuppiescum | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:35am

The Government Center plaza SUCKS. Redeveloping it (though "development" seems to be impossible in this commonwealth) would be stellar.

PS, can you fix the tab order on the login page? Hitting tab in the "username" field moves the focus to one of the random links on the right instead of the password field.

Tab problem

By adamg | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:38am

Ugh, sorry. I thought I'd fixed it, but obviously not. Will take another look.

Yeah, the plaza does kinda suck

By anon-a-mouse | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:57am

But moving Coty Hall to the outskirts with no good public transit would be worse than leaving things as is. Meanwhile, our taxes are being wasted on "studying" this.

Funny Thing ...

By Slimbru | Tue, 09/23/2008 - 1:15pm

way back when, in the late 60's and early 70's both the Sox and the Pats were looking at relocating. Each of them was interested in a land parcel in Stoughton located at the corner of routes 24 and 139.

Slimbru
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