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Proposed Sale of Hynes Convention Center Meets Pushback
Proposed last fall as a way to help fund the $500-million expansion of Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC), a potential sale of the 52-year-old John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Back Bay has run into political opposition, the Boston Herald reported.
Legislators must approve a bill before the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority can sell the Hynes Center, which reportedly needs at least $200 million in repairs. However, Back Bay residents and business owners want lawmakers to pump the brakes on a process they say they feel shut out of, reported the Herald.
“You’re trying to conduct open-heart surgery with really no community process at all,” City Councilor Kenzie Bok said during a hearing of the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight at the State House.
The sale would also include transferring 12 acres of land in South Boston near the BCEC back to city ownership.
Photo of Hynes Center by Grk1011.
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