Be like Daley, Larry, send the bulldozers to rip up the mall at midnight
6 comments April 13th, 2009
Add me to the list of skeptics who don’t believe the Main Street mall will ever be torn up. The Morrissey administration delayed the project from City Council consideration Monday night because bids came in too high.
Nothing will happen downtown until there’s visible proof that the city government cares to put its money where its mouth is. The mall was a mistake in 1973 when it was built. The State Street half was taken out in the 1980s, but the Main street portion lingers on, falling into greater disrepair.
The mayor needs to do a Mayor Daley on that mall: Send the bulldozers in at midnight. Then, with it torn to shreds, the city will have no choice but to put the street back.
