Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Grand Non-Opening


Spencer
Originally uploaded by BLP.
The city celebrated the redevelopment of Spencer Street Station (the city's major rail and bus hub) on Saturday with an open house featuring balloons, food, and, of course, clowns. Despite such festive offerings, no one showed, probably because the city's inhabitants are well aware that the redevelopment is far from over. Though originally scheduled for completion this past weekend, the completion date has been pushed back to December, and the project is now estimated to go $100 overbudget. Construction sites (pictured here - taken this weekend) make very poor playgrounds, so I'm not sure what they were thinking. Perhaps they put a nonrefundable deposit down on those clowns before they knew about the delays.

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