Adams Presidential Center presser recap

– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added

Peeking over the podium …
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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch rolled out his latest grandiose plan, this time for an “Adams Presidential Center.”

While Tuesday’s photo op for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and his latest grandiose plans for eminent domain taking the Adams Academy building and adjacent property bought with tax dollars for a presidential library last year was not publicly known to be scheduled until the day before, Quincy Quarry found out when and where this presser would be held as well as so attended the event as for reasons obvious it is not on the Koch Administration’s event media notice list.

Those officially invited to speak ran the gamut of the usual suspects.

Rub-a-dub-dub!
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

They included a former left office in disgrace former member of the United States House of Representatives, the current representative for Quincy and elsewhere as well as the State Secretary of State who clearly looked to wish he could be anywhere else, including at a dentist appointment.

Also in attendance in the audience where at least a couple of state representatives, a former as well as problematic State Treasurer as well as a Quincy homeboy who is now Mayor Koch’s boy at Quincy’s Chamber of Commerce, a former City Clerk for the City of Quincy and now Norfolk County Commissioner, and the rest mostly the usual suspect Koch cost holders filling the seats in what is a relatively modest in size room along with various media.

As for what was said  by Mayor Koch, he noted that John Adams’ personal library is currently held in responsible conservancy by the Boston Public Library as well as that there have been no consequential discussions about returning the books to Quincy in the wake of his ask to check them out two years ago.

The Adams personal books collection at the Boston Public Library
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Needless to say, one can only assume that the Boston Public Library has only begun to fight and thus the name change from the originally proposed Adams President Library to the now proposed Adams Presidential Center.

Mayor Koch then went on with a flowery discussion of what was planned, albeit woefully short of actual particulars.

On the bright side, absent actual particulars, he thus thankfully did not drone on and on and on even more.

At the same time, given his gracious mention of who all he has reached out to for support and the like, one can only assume that he was hoping to see them help him raise the likely at least high eight figures in funding likely needed to build his latest Edifice Complex.

On the trail for money, serious money
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That and additionally a similar amount more to endow the covering of the likely run least mid-seven figure operational and programming expenses needed to then operate the center and/or otherwise find annual outside funding as not even the mostly invertebrate supplicants on the Quincy City Council are likely to be up for sticking local taxpayers for an at least several hundred dollars a year surcharge on the tax bill on the average assessed value local residences it would take to fund with local taxpayers’ money merely bust the annual operating expenses of this latest koched-up proposal.

Boston Public Library
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Further telling is how Mayor Koch did not present any of the usual renderings of what he was proposing to build, the first time to the best of Quincy Quarry’s recollection that no such material was provided. 

In fact, there was not even but merely an in color handout handed out as, well, some sort of attempt at creating collectable ephemera.

Even so, Koch did mention that he was planning on building an at least a 100,000 square foot building.

A Koch Problem bumper sticker graphic

For some sense as to what such a building would entail, figure on something on the order of the six floor half of the Presidents Place office building on a similarly tight site as well as would surely run more than $100 million to build before consideration of the parking capacity needed.

Up in smoke yet again?
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In other words, this latest koched-up proposal could well run upwards of a quarter of a billion dollars to build as well as duly endow fund its annual operational costs.

Further problematic in the meanwhile, the City of Quincy is headed to court next month over its dubious claim that has long owned the land underneath the Adams Academy building.

So what, apparently, for the fact that Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Bunch had previously issued a finding that the City of Quincy’s claim that it owned the land was without merit, and which Quincy Quarry News was the first media to exposé.

Looking to yet again be beaten up by school girls?
An old Facebook file photo

In turn, when the city’s dubious claim of land ownership is likely again rejected in court, Mayor Koch will so be looking at having to come up with upwards of ten to twelve million more to duly buy the land underneath a building that is currently rented out to the Quincy Hysterical Society.

Additionally, the City of Quincy could well find itself further sanctioned over this latest effort by it to yet again harass young school girls at the Woodward School for Girls.

Ne/net, Quincy Quarry’s ever growing legions of loyal readers should expect yet another potentially years long legal dispute that will likely cost local taxpayers even more millions than the last time the Woodward School for Girls dope slapped the not so good old boys in Quincy’s City Hall.

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