Boston Globe No ice rink for teens who discovered TD Garden's shirking of fundraising duties
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KnightofBoston
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“Damn kids these days, always on their phone or computer up to no good”
*kids organize together and sequester promised funds through hard work and wholesome collaboration”
“Damn kids, making me have to actually hold myself to my fraudulent hypocritical value system, just go back on your phone or something”
Good lawd I can’t for the youth movement to fully take over. So sick of these selfish prigs sitting on their ivory thrones of morality pretending to represent hard work and good values. f*** em all
*kids organize together and sequester promised funds through hard work and wholesome collaboration”
“Damn kids, making me have to actually hold myself to my fraudulent hypocritical value system, just go back on your phone or something”
Good lawd I can’t for the youth movement to fully take over. So sick of these selfish prigs sitting on their ivory thrones of morality pretending to represent hard work and good values. f*** em all
Sure if it was 10 v. 2 but 50 million for a community center? Super fishy. We’ll never get a budget though unfortunately.
I'm also wondering if part of that may have been earmarked for initial operating costs? The UCONN one is pretty close to that #, but it's likely got every bell and whistle too.
Over the volcano
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There’s a town house in that neighborhood going for 2 mil alone right across from the projects. JP is crazy $ these days ... we got our first and only condo there 10 years ago for 215k.
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Sure, but wasn’t this thing budgeted two years ago?
And like pointed out earlier...A D1 arena on is getting built for cheaper.
Since we’re using homes as a comparable..Average price per square foot for a home in J.P. is $528 according to Zillow. 50,000 SQ feet would be $26.4M. Like mentioned earlier, a hockey rink costs about $7M
I dunno, I’m highly skeptical. I’ve seen a lot of “price it so it doesn’t happen” type deals in my day. Something’s not adding up here
It's called gov't involvement. Take them out of it and I bet it's built and being used within a year.
Over the volcano
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NFW - community ice rinks for city youth are the last thing the “market’s“ interested in... now if it were a Trader Joe’s or a Starbucks it’d be up by the end of the week.
2 years is a long time plus that area is prime real estate which easily drives up the cost.
They are trying to build not only a rink but an indoor field. Between that and the land alone, you’re well over the initial budget. Add in the cost to staff and operate the facility on top of the security (it is near the most dangerous project in the city, Bromley-Heath).
Zillow isn’t going to be of any help.
When it comes to property, the city would rather sell to the wealthy developers than help their own constituents.
It’s not getting any better in Hyde Park or Roslindale either. Don’t get me started on West Roxbury.
This message is confusing, I might be misreading it. Is it prime real estate or the most dangerous project in the city? Is the city not being helpful or is the cost prohibitive?
Zillow has more data than anyone, so I’m just so curious how the $50 number came out and how that went up 132% in just two years after the mistake was discovered and the kids came knocking on the door of the agreement that wasn’t honored. Funny how that happened
Hey I get it though...the city and state have bigger fish to fry. Why help the kids when you can spend your time worrying about where Uber’s and Lyfts are dropping off people at the airport.
They’re trying to clean up the neighborhood and by doing so, it has gentrified it at a rapid rate.
On the flip side, even though it has been cleaned up, it is still next door to the worst project (crime wise) in the city.
That is Boston. One side of town is nice and the other, not so much.
