Boston Mayor Proposes Selling City Hall Building
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino proposed selling City Hall and its brick plaza to private developers yesterday in a move that he said would “galvanize the vitality of our downtown.”
A new City Hall could be rebuilt at the South Boston waterfront, Mr. Menino said. He outlined the plan during a breakfast event sponsored by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
“This sale will open up prime real estate for facilities and open space that will galvanize the vitality of our downtown and strengthen Boston’s future,” Mr. Menino said in the speech, the Boston Globe reported.
Mr. Menino also explored the possible sale of City Hall in 1998.
The 1960s-era concrete building, designed in a modernist style known as “brutalism,” sits amid other government buildings across a street from Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market.
The mayor’s office did not immediately return a call yesterday for further comment.
