City Hall Is Best Left In The Center Of The City

23 January 2007 - 6:00am

Mayor Tom Menino's proposal to move Boston City Hall to the south waterfront ignores the importance of the building's location, and the recent developments in downtown.

"Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's proposal to move City Hall to the industrial waterfront in South Boston is a little like moving out of the neighborhood just at the moment real estate prices shoot up."

The mayor's plan, which would sell the current site for private development and locate the city's administrative headquarters in the reinvented south waterfront, misses out on downtown's own reinvention, featuring the soon-to-open green space left after the completion of the big dig.

"Rather than move City Hall just when this party is getting started, the mayor could order a top-to-bottom renovation of the Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles structure, which opened in 1969."

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Source: The Hartford Courant, January 21, 2007