Comments on: Yet again, I’m with Brussat

By: Eric Smith

Eric Smith — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:59:25 +0000

I really like the idea of moveable hoops in the skating center in the summer. The Hope High kids would love that, and yeah it’d be something for them to do.

By: Dave Segal

Dave Segal — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:47:39 +0000

yeah, station park’s another pretty sorry space these days.

By: raininri

raininri — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:31:32 +0000

Maybe not seriously floated, but there was an article a couple of years ago about putting a polo field in there. Egad. We did a studio in the RISD architecture department (there’s another incarnation of it happening right now) proposing a new train station/hotel complex for the site. That’s purely a hypothetical, though.

Strike that. I’m thinking of the area across Francis from the mall.

By: Dave Segal

Dave Segal — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:59:30 +0000

Yup. Agreed. Sad that nothing’s even been seriously floated for that parcel in like 6 years. (In many respects — particularly in that it’s more incorporated into the city’s grid — it strikes me as more attractive for development than either of the parcels that are right on waterplace.)

By: Jef Nickerson

Jef Nickerson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:54:22 +0000

Eh, I really like both Waterplace and GTECH. I’m CRAZY I know!

I think it will be better with the new BCBS building as well, but what will really help is when someday in the far off distant future (like when we finally get those flying cars we’ve been being promised) the Citizens parking lots are developed. Anything would look a little weird at the Waterplace site now just standing there with nothing across Exchange Street. Once those parcels are developed Capital Center becomes a fully built out district.