A FEW OF BRA'S BROKEN PROMISES IN CHINATOWN

1985
Parcel C
Promised not to build 850-car parking garage.
Supported garage again in 1987.

1987
Parcel C
Promised not to build 600-car parking garage.
Supported garage again in 1993.

1990
Parcel C
Promised to build Chinatown Community Center.
Supported garage again in 1993.

1994
Parcel C
Promised to uphold Chinatown Community Plan vision.
Blocking CPA's negotiations for space in 2004.

1999
Parcel C
RFP promised 10,000 square feet of community center space.
Forcing smallest non-profit agency to subsidize BRA space.

2003
Hayward Place
Public parcel taken by eminent domain "for the public good"
Promised for housing – became office project
Millenium gets 10 years to build while the city continues to collect parking revenue.

1988
Chinatown Housing Improvement Plan
Promised development of 650 new housing units in five years, half affordable.
About 400 mixed-income units built in 16 years.
Priority now on luxury housing.

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Redirect Institutional Growth
Approved Jaharis Building, 1993

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Redirect Institutional Growth
YMCA bubble given to Tufts in exchange for new YMCA.

1988
Hinge Block Housing
Promised 150 units, half affordable for Hinge Block.
Building 700 units of luxury/market housing.

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Strengthen the Working Class Family Neighborhood
Surrounding Chinatown with 3,000 luxury highrise units.

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Strengthen the Working Class Family Neighborhood
Refusing to support rezoning of the Combat Zone.

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Strengthen the Working Class Family Neighborhood
2000 approved Liberty Place/Park on Essex
market-rate housing over community objections.

1990
Chinatown District Zoning
Promised building heights of 80-100 feet.
1993 Jaharis Building approved.
2000 Metropolitan approved.
2000 Liberty Place approved.
2004 Kensington Place approved.

1989
Midtown Cultural District Plan
Promised theater and cultural district
with cultural and housing facilities for Chinatown.
2004, Kensington Place will destroy historic theater
and build 30-story luxury high-rise.

1993
China Trade Center:
Promised to stabilize Chinatown community.
2004 planning to rent building out to Emerson College.

1990
Chinatown Community Plan:
Build Land Bridges for the Future Chinatown
Promised to utilize Central Artery parcels east of Chinatown
for community expansion affordable housing and job development.
2004, South Bay Planning Task Force focused on
large-scale development of a new upscale neighborhood.