News: Revs, Revere "in final stages" of talks on Wonderland Stadium

I'm probably the only guy on this board crazy enough to agree with you, but I've been a proponent of a stadium in that vicinity for several years. Funny thing is, I blogged about a stadium on a nearby parcel in 2010 and I remember Brian in Boston attacked it vociferously back then, too. Some things never change.

The Seaport area would be both a) a better location for more people in terms of proximity and visibility for this club than either Somerville or Revere and b) feasible, as you've outlined in context of the BCEC.

Money is money; the Krafts are playing "let's make a deal" and want the most public financing they can get. A prospective seaport location may not be out publicly in the papers because the Krafts probably learned their lesson the last time. It could work, although I'll admit it has the least probability of any GBA location (short of Boston Common of course).

 

Any Seaport location would be very expensive. It is a prime location for anything.

 

Agreed, but if Kraft wanted to build an accompanying retail area along the waterfront, the cost would be worth it.

 

Great work on the rendering. This location is more in South Boston proper than the Seaport district. The convention center is about as long as the long dimension of the Boston Common or the length of Hannover st from the greenway to Commercial st. So while it's front is in the Seaport its rear is not. From an urban design standpoint this stadium would create a new face to the convention center facing the rest of the neighborhood. This idea along with new development along the sides of the convention center would start the ambitious project of creating a pedestrian connection between the seaport and south Boston (through currently industrial and warehouse areas). It certainly is an intriguing idea.

Who knows maybe this idea has been discussed behind closed doors. The krafts are frustratingly tight lipped, right?

 

http://www.revere.org/news/post/city-of-revere-economic-development-summit-a-massive-success

The link above is nothing surprising, but it states that The Kraft Group among others attended a recent City of Revere sponsored development summit.

 

I feel like a lot of people forget that buying land is also an investment. Kraft is not losing the money he puts into a land purchase. Generally, land is a great investment, especially if he were to sell 15-20 years from now. Boston is not going to get any less dense or smaller.

 

"South Boston Proper"? There is no such place. So. Boston is a zip code. It's all the City of Boston. Why make these meaningless distinctions? It minimizes Boston to seem less than it is as a city in the whole sense.

 

WOO HOO SEMANTICS!

 

Especially when all these elitist neighborhoods have their own "councils" that pretty much can kill projects on their own!!
North End old ladies killed many a potential store/restaurant opening..MANY!

 

Well, there I make an exception.... It would be truly criminal for an Olive Garden to open in the North End. Almost as bad as the Christmas Tree Shops in Bourne and Yarmouth.

 

It's truly criminal for an Olive Garden to open anywhere. And I thought Christmas Tree Shops actually started on the Cape. So they're kind of local.

 

Dunkin CrapNuts opened up a place at the Trevi Fountain in Rome about 15 years ago...I prayed for it to fail. There's no longer a DD at Trevi Fountain!!
Now why aren't my prayers ever answered bout #Krapathy? Guess God doesn't exist! LOL

 

I was in the Milan train station many years ago with backpack in tow and an obvious American (overweight, t-shirt, sneakers and baseball hat) came up to me and asked in a loud, semi-Southern accent, "Where kin ah git me sumfin t'eat?" pointing at his wide-open mouth. I enjoy messing with people like that, so I stared at him blankly for a few seconds until he said "Aw main, yew cain't speak English, cain yew?" I replied in a generic "foreign" accent, "yis, a little." He repeated his question even louder, just so I would understand him better. I replied in a very dileberate way, making sure I pronounced the words that would have made my mythical English teacher proud, "There are minny restaraunt near-bah." At that point he turned around to ask the same question to someone else. If he had walked 25 feet out the door he would have seen a freakin' Wendy's right in front of him... I hope the bastard starved to death!

 

No wonder they hate us.

 

Sometimes the answer is "no."

 

what you don't love a bargain?

 

or a man mall in foxboro

 

I know, I've seen this firsthand with older relatives. I think their brain is strangely wired to their taste buds so that a bargain tastes good.

 

what's necessarily wrong with that?

 

What's wrong with that? Well, we all get one chance in the universe to walk the planet and some choose to do it eating at dreary L.C.D. chain establishments in a nylon jacket and white Velcro sneakers from WalMart.

 

The above two links are videos from a recent City of Revere sponsored development summit. Neither video is directly related to a soccer stadium (although the second video does make mention of the stadium possibility), but they do give a good background on what is happening in the city and what the City hopes will happen.

 

If they are convinced it tastes good, then it is all a matter of perspective...just as the things you perceive to taste good. Don't be so damn judgmental

 

You are right. Thank you for counseling me not to be judgmental. It's good to hear this from a sensitive friend such as you.