Here’s what Boston could look like before, during, and after the Olympics
At least as Boston 2024 sees it.
Widett Circle would be made into a developed “Midtown’’ in Boston 2024’s ambitious plan.
You can say a lot of things about Boston 2024’s revised Olympic bid plan, but you can’t accuse it of being unambitious.
Boston 2024’s “Bid 2.0,’’ as the new version has been called, was unveiled during a presentation on Monday. It includes a number of proposed temporary Olympic structures that would then be converted into lasting parks and neighborhoods for Boston after the Games. The idea is to avoid the ugly, unused, dilapidated structures — “white elephants’’ — that other Olympic host cities have been left with.
Boston 2024 provided a series of sketches and images of the best-case scenario Boston after the Olympics. Here’s what Boston would look before, during, and after the Olympic Games if Boston 2024’s dreams are realized.
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The images show a drastically remade Boston, including in the following places:
• Widett Circle’s warehouses would be turned into the Olympic Stadium, and then they would become a heavily developed “Midtown’’ neighborhood.
• Columbia Point would be used as the Athletes’ Village during the Games, and it would then become a community center, shopping area, and dorms for UMass Boston.
• Squantum Point Park would host beach volleyball and later would become a concentrated athletics area along the waterfront.
• Franklin Park would host the horse and dressage events and then would become a lasting athletics park.
• Harambee Park would host the Olympic tennis events, and afterward it would become a tennis and athletics complex.
Of course, there are plenty of obstacles to these plans, beginning with whether or not Boston wins the Olympics bid in the first place. The post-Olympic proposals are also at different stages of planning. Columbia Point and Widett Circle payment and development plans are far more detailed than the hoped-for drawings of Squantum Point Park.
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