{"id":23,"date":"2007-03-01T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T21:24:55","slug":"city-hall-and-surrounding-land-for-sale-good-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"City Hall and Surrounding Land For Sale;-) Good For ALL!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">In a speech this morning, Mayor Menino annouced his plans to again try to sell City Hall and City Hall Plaza to private developers.\u00c2\u00a0 The sale of this under-developed land would provide more than enough proceeds to fund the development of a iconic new City Hall on Drydock Four in the new and up-and-coming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seaport District\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh&#8217;s Thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is fantastic for the city and future luxury condo buyers.\u00c2\u00a0 Any high rise built on this land will boast stunning Ocean, Beacon Hill, Back Bay and park views.\u00c2\u00a0 Being on the edge of Beacon Hill, historic North End\u00c2\u00a0and located in the middle of &#8220;It All&#8221; this parcel of land will fetch a premium.\u00c2\u00a0 It will also be fantastic for the up and coming Seaport District where Mortons and\u00c2\u00a0Legal Test Kitchen have take up positions in anticipetion of enourmous future development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicks&#8217;s Thoughts:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Thoughts:\u00c2\u00a0 I am almost always a fan of redeveloping under-developed land and completely support this proposal.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the drawbacks?\u00c2\u00a0 None that I can see.\u00c2\u00a0 Developers get a blank canvas to add to Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skyline with more residential and mixed-use properties and the city get\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rid of one of the ugliest buildings ever constructed.\u00c2\u00a0 This also should bring some attention to the newly developed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seaport District\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and most likely bring in better public transportation as well.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech this morning, Mayor Menino annouced his plans to again try to sell City Hall and City Hall Plaza to private developers.\u00c2\u00a0 The sale of this under-developed land would provide more than enough proceeds to fund the development of a iconic new City Hall on Drydock Four in the new and up-and-coming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seaport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxbeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}