From the Globe, a truly depressing reminder that Government Center is not going to be improved anytime soon, and in fact will likely get worse:
After nearly a decade of grand plans to transform City Hall Plaza from eyesore to important public space, it’s come to this: a suggestion to build a garage for cars and tour buses beneath the 11 acres of brick. The privately funded Trust for City Hall Plaza is about to call it quits, having achieved little in its eight-year quest to remake the space except for building a $2.7 million lighted arcade along one edge.
That arcade, while not hideous, is fairly useless, valuable only in that it distracts the sightline from the cascading brick kiln that is Government Center Plaza. Also, the article mentions that one of the improvement that will take place will be the reconstruction of the Governement Center T stop. Yes, the station is old and congested, but it’s the one remnant with the Scollay Square past that we have (see this photo), and I’ll be sad to see it redone. In fact, if they really wanted to improve Government Center plaza, they’d just redraw the Scollay Sq. street grid they razed in the 60s.
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