June 16, 2010

Salisbury Street, airport and Junction shops

Drove by the house featured on the front page of the Sunday newspaper.   True it does need paint but other then that??    Don't get me wrong, I can understand how the neighbors would be frustrated by this, but is this really an issue for the City?   Unless somthing structural is going on or there are other code violations, that I am unaware of , it hardly appears to be an issue.   There are many many other more pressing issues.

I did not read the story close enough and did even notice the part about the HUD guaranteed loan.   I agree with the commenters who said why I we doing this?  The airport is going to crank over the next couple of years, we can wait for businesses that do not need HUD guaranteed loans.

Also Eric answered some of the questions that have arisen regarding the Junction Shops.  Please read those comments.  

1 comment:

Jahn said...

I do have to give kudos to Hanover for stepping up and financing City Sq II. W/o them I strongly suspect we'd still be stuck in neutral re City Sq.

However headlines such as Hanover backed group buys the City Sq parcel leaving me scratching my head.

When a new super market opens up it does not say that a Bank of America backed group opened a new grocery store today. When a new casino is finally built in Mass it will not say not say a Winterhill Bank & Trust Co. backed group....

Time to put the emphasis on who the real player(s) and decision makers are here and not the source of the money.