BOSTON – Planning to move state highway offices from their perch above the central artery tunnels near Boston's South Station, city and state officials said Tuesday that they want to redevelop the 5.5 acre site, potentially to create affordable housing and new business space.
The site sits at the south end of the city's Leather District and the eastern corner of Chinatown. The move is a high-profile example of an effort Gov. Charlie Baker hopes to spur around Massachusetts, converting state-owned land into housing and economic development opportunities.
Is all that is needed to correct the excesses and bad decision-making of the last eight years a newly elected president who will make small adjustments and corrections? Someone who can make minor changes to the expansion of big government that President Barack Obama has implemented?
If that is all that is needed, then Republican voters might well flip a coin to decide for whom to cast ballots in the presidential primaries coming to New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New England. Any of the GOP candidates would be an improvement over President Obama. Any of the Republicans who have already dropped out of the race would be preferable. In fact, any Republican would "better manage" the status quo.
