Just remember your SERVICES are being GUTTED, Bay-Staters!
"For the Kraft’s Patriot Place, a golden gateway; $9m in stimulus funds urged for footbridge over Route 1" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | November 7, 2009
The Patrick administration is pushing through a plan to spend $9 million in federal stimulus money to build a walking bridge connecting parking lots on either side of Route 1 near Gillette Stadium. The lots belong to Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who is tied for number 468 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires.
And WHAT COULD YOUR TOWN do with $9 MILLION DOLLARS, huh?
Mine would be SAVED FOR YEARS!!!!!
State officials decided to bypass a host of projects across the state - including road rebuilding projects in Canton, Danvers, Braintree, and Bellingham - to build the footbridge....
How do you like the INSULT with your INJURY, Bay-Stater?
“Is this the best use of very, very limited stimulus money for transportation, a pedestrian bridge that basically goes between two parking lots?’’ said Marc Draisen, director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, one of the planning agencies that would normally review such a project....
Draisen said the administration has not adequately addressed several basic public policy questions about the project, including why the Kraft Group, owners of the Patriots and the Patriot Place mega-development that abuts the stadium, are not paying for it themselves.
Because STATE GOVERNMENT works FOR THEM, not you, readers!!!
Patrick officials announced earlier this year that they will use some stimulus money to help jump-start private projects. They say the bridge, which includes elevators on either side of the street, is key to spurring economic development and jobs along Route 1 in Foxborough....
Then LET the PROFIT-MAKING PATRIOTS PAY FOR IT!!!!!!!!
THEY are going to BENEFIT, not RESIDENTS!!!
The use of the money in Foxborough follows a massive private investment by the Krafts, who privately financed a state-of-the-art, $325 million football stadium that opened in 2002, then built a sprawling commercial development next door several years later. “The Kraft Group fully supports the state’s long-term economic growth initiatives and is proud to have already created thousands of jobs while privately investing nearly a billion dollars in the development of Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place in Foxborough,’’ Kraft Group spokesman Stacey James said in a prepared statement....
I'm kind of sick of the back-slapping arrogance and self-adulation of sports, aren't you? Btw, Kraft a Jew! At the bottom of every agenda.....
State officials said it will provide a public safety and traffic benefits on game days, when fans stream across the wide road to get to the stadium, slowing the flow of vehicles....
WHO CARES about an 8 TIMES a YEAR issue?
There are 357 MORE DAYS of the YEAR, you myopic s***!!!!
The Kraft Group’s role, if any, in seeking the federal money is not clear. But as recently as March, the Kraft Group was working with Foxborough’s town manager on trying to get state funds for the bridge, according to minutes from a selectmen’s meeting posted on the town’s website.
But we love our Patriots around here! PFFFFT!
Greg Bialecki, the state’s secretary of housing and economic development, said Massachusetts is losing out to states like North Carolina and Texas in the competition for companies because of a historic reluctance to use public money to improve infrastructure around private development....
Yeah, try to make us FEEL GUILTY!
Related: EMC Moving Out of Massachusetts
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Yeah, we are LOSING MONEY to them -- but LET'S BUILD ROADS for them, too -- while MINE HAVE POTHOLES in them!!!!!
He said the state has previously spent $70 million on public improvements in the area around the stadium and the shopping complex, yielding private investments of $800 million from the Kraft Group.
And CUI BONO?
Not residents of the state!?
The town of Foxborough, though supportive of the bridge project, has not been willing to spend its own money on it.... Construction on the bridge itself, which was once estimated to cost just $6 million, is expected to begin in the spring....
(Blog editor shaking his head; it's the same thing every frikkin' time)
Bialecki said the Kraft family’s wealth was not a factor in deciding whether they should pay for the bridge. The relevant question, Bialecki said, “Is the public investment we’re making likely to increase private job creation? And if it is, then it’s a good thing to do.’’Right, being rich and lobbying for state dough had nothing to do with it.
The LYING DOES NOT HELP, puke!!!!
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