Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch mulls purchase of waterfront land along Town River in Quincy Point

Bow of the USS Salem, right; future Thayer Academy crew boathouse, left?

It’s not my money
An Easy Money Associates/Orion Pictures

Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch mulls purchase of waterfront land along the Town River Channel in Quincy Point.

Hard upon Mayor Koch’s ill-received plans to use federal COVID-19 relief money to buy the Munroe Building in Quincy Center for a site for his already turned aside plans to build yet another koched-up Edifice Complex to this time build a combined City Hall and home for money-losing hand over fist Quincy College and so provide him with an only proper to expect sixteenth-floor penthouse view of Houghs Neck and points north as well as sate his jones for using taxpayers’ money to buy taxpaying properties and so take them off the local tax rolls, Koch is now proposing to buy waterfront property in Quincy Point.

Mayor Koch is talking up redeveloping existing public access to the water and it is surely but a coincidence that his plans will likely make it possible for Cashman Marine to slip the USS Salem out of its all but rent-free slip as well as grift owner Jay Cashman long ongoing goal of creating a permanent home for the crew program operated by Braintree’s well-endowed Thayer Academy.

Living a lie …
An old ill-advised Facebook photo

This announcement came but less than two weeks after Koch Maladministration mouthpiece Pinocchio Walkbacker stated on the record at a Quincy City Council meeting that he had no knowledge of this now announced latest land grift.  Amazingly, his pants did not burst into flames.

In any event, this latest proposed Koch Maldministrtion land grab at taxpayers’ expense is working the usual grift of starting out with but a (“relatively,” ed.) modest opening amount ask to make the land purchase while at the same time not addressing the likely manyfold greater total cost for what all else is planned for this latest koched-up Edifice Complex.

How manyfold greater?

Quincy’s free-spending big spender
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

In this case, Quincy Quarry New’s maritime construction experts are projecting the total project cost at upwards of $15 million or more to buy the land, dredge out the channel as would be needed, build a proper berthing facility as well as other infrastructure needed to relocate the USS Salem out of its pretty much a free dock at Cashman Marine.

That and – again – so facilitate Jay Cashman’s long-held goal of establishing a permanent home for Thayer Academy’s rowing program even if it should be proscribed from doing so in the Designated Port Area commercial waters of the mouths of the Fore and Town Rivers, not to mention that Thayer has previously been kicked out of other local waters for hogging those waterways.

So what also that area small boater owners are looking likely to lose yet another affordable boat storage and launch facility.

Up in smoke!
A cheat-sheet.com image

And then there is the only reasonable ongoing expense for maintaining the facility in the wake of the Koch Maladministration’s surely related sotto voce plan to de-facto take over control of the USS Salem as part of Mayor Koch’s long ongoing pipedream that Quincy can compete with Salem for tourists revenue.  Figure a million or more a year in ongoing expenses likely to end up imposed upon already hard-pressed Quincy taxpayers.

Needless to say, also ponder the darkly amusing irony of taking over the USS Salem as an endeavor to compete with Salem for tourists.

And for even more granularity about this latest koched-up scheme – if not also an arguable scam, be sure to review the comments posted by a clearly well-informed individual to the South Shore broadsheet’s overage on this latest clearly problematic proposal by the Koch Maladministration.

The pygmy elephant in the room
A Koch Problem bumper sticker graphic

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