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Demeter

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1. The only place worse than a major coastal US city for the Olympics

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Jul 3, 2015, 07:27 AM

Jul 2015

Would be a major Indian city.

There's no land! There's no infrastructure of a sufficiently massive scale. They'd have to level the place and start from scratch, or do the actual venue 100 miles north or west.

Is that the plan? Urban renewal 2.0?

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Economist, Olympic Expert Andrew Zimbalist on Boston 2024's '2.0' Plan: 'It's Bologna' [View all] unhappycamper Jul 2015 OP

The only place worse than a major coastal US city for the Olympics Demeter Jul 2015 #1

I'm thinking Boston 2024 is a land grab job. unhappycamper Jul 2015 #2

Please keep things like this in for public eye. Thanks n/t Paper Roses Jul 2015 #3

the city that gave us the big dig \nt 6chars Jul 2015 #4

And the cost overruns of the big dig as well as R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2015 #5