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The Church of Presidents gets no respect from Kim Jong Koch Plaza Snow Team Sic
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Quincy Center post ice storm Snow Jobs.
As per Quincy Quarry New’s standard operating procedures, the Quarry’s City Editor dispatched personnel to review the mean and often ice-covered pavement of Quincy in the wake of last night’s ice storm.
Needless to say, not only were local streets found to be as long-suffering locals have come to expect, Quincy Center’s sidewalks were in even sorrier shape.
For example, most of Kim Jung Koch Plaza adjacent to Quincy’s two city halls was found cleared down to the pavement by midmorning.
Especially icy cold seats
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So what, apparently, for the fact that the two city halls will remain closed for the weekend until Monday morning,
Conversely, however, the giant snow piles piled high along the plaza from last weekend’s bombogenesis blizzard are now glaciers after they were first soaked by yesterday’s heavy rain and which was then followed by a hard freeze.
Additionally, Kim Jong Koch Plaza’s benches had not been accorded with their typical daily power-washing, much less merely but cleared of last night’s icy sleeting.
Then again, with temperatures not expected to go above the mid-twenty degree range until Monday, it is not as if many people will be interested in sitting outside even given a forecast for a bright and sunny for today.
Where is White Fang when he is needed?
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On the other hand, the walkways leading to the entrances of the very actively used Crane Public Library were icy whiteout slips and slides. So what, apparently, for the fact that the library was open today.
Then again, not that this should come as any great surprise to anyone among the ever-growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry News followers.
Similarly, a well past-outsized sidewalk elsewhere in Quincy Center was found to be a frozen hockey rink.
Then again, this local property owner is tight with Quincy’s peerless mayor.
Wide whiteout
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That as well as known to be cheap.
Wicked tight cheap.
That and possessed of more than a few other less than endearing traits.
Then again opposites attract.
Or at least offers up opportunities for one side of things.
All $ort$ of opportunitie$.
Benches or low-income summer condos?
Is it the same guy who is putting a crappy two-story addition on top of an existing crappy building behind the Presidents Church?
I have always wondered how does one landlord rent space to so many massage parlors? Does he advertise his rentals on RubHubThailand or what? Does he accept Thai Baht instead of US dollars for rent payments? It is all very odd and gross!
Ms. Chu,
The answer to your question is yes.
Also note that our peerless mayor saw to it that his travel companion scored a nice chunk of change from Quincy’s Affordable Housing Trust to help pay for building this monstrosity.
The library looking like eight days after the snowstorm, is disgraceful. More proof that education has never been a priority of Mayor Koch.
This walkway must have been cleared to give pedestrians unimpeded access to the two ridiculous and unsightly mountains of snow/ice in front of the two city halls.
It’s interesting to ponder whether the rest of Adams Green is apparently merely window dressing — the actual purpose, all along, was to provide a place to dump excess snow over the winter. $30(+)million for a snow dump. Only in the Q.
Asterisk,
It is even worse than even you might realize. Way worse as a matter of fact.
Not only was the mall way of Kim Jong Koch Plaza way overdone in ways also wicked costly (e.g. WBZ reported an all costs inclusive price of $35 million), little to no prefacing thought appears to have been undertaken on how to address snow events, the contrasting starkly barren grassy area that flows towards the MBTA station is slated for a Phase 3 landscaping.
Phase 3 is projected to happen after a plan for a long-overdue redo of the Quincy Center MBTA station and the related arguably stalled plans for private development in the air rights over the station are set along with now our peerless mayor’s already summarily rejected plans to build a 16 story tower for shared use by new city hall and a home for long foundering Quincy College on the site of the two-story Munroe Building opposite Presidents Place.
Koch Maladministration PR flack Pinocchio Walkbacker is on record as saying that Phase 3 will run around $5 million, so figure $10 million-plus. After all, just the cost of the bronze needed for a heroic statute of our peerless mayor alone …
Remember Plan 9 from Outer Space?
It’s long been considered to be the “worst movie ever made”, but wait(!) we now have Phase 3 from 1305 Hancock Street to look forward to.