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Massport OKs Logan garage space funds

The Massachusetts Port Authority board yesterday approved a partial project budget of $20 million to fund work on adding up to 2,050 parking spaces at Logan International Airport.

Massport will start construction later this year on additions to the central and Terminal B garages that will cost an estimated $60 million. The added spaces will be completed in 2015 and 2016.

Hundred subpoenas issued in R.I. probe that includes 38 Studios loan

A lawyer for former Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox told a judge yesterday more than 100 grand jury subpoenas have been issued in what he believes is a wide-ranging investigation by federal and state authorities that includes looking at the failed 38 Studios deal.

The attorney made the comments before Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein as he sought to quash a subpoena issued to Fox for a range of documents related to ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schillings now-bankrupt company. Silverstein is overseeing a lawsuit brought by the states economic development agency over the $75 million loan guarantee it gave 38 Studios.

Bay State jobless rate drops, but so does the number of jobs

The state unemployment rate fell to 6 percent yesterday, but the state lost jobs for the first time since January.

Its a bit of a mixed picture, said Alan Clayton Matthews, a professor at Northeastern University.

The state lost 1,600 jobs, and saw the largest drop in the leisure and hospitality sector. Clayton Matthews said that sector can be volatile, and may not reflect the economys true direction.

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Aided by an army of lawyers, consultants, and architects, Children's Hospital seems well on its way to winning approval for a huge, auto-centric office park in the middle of a thriving rowhouse neighborhood on the Schuylkill. All it needs is an endorsement on Tuesday from the Planning Commission; then it's off to the Zoning Board for a routine variance.

So, that's that, folks. On to the next megaproject.

After years of effort by the Nutter administration to forge a more balanced approach to planning and zoning, the likely approval of the Children's high-rise campus in its current form is a disheartening reminder of how little progress actually has been made since the any-development-is-good-development days of Mayors Rendell and Street.

The proposed campus next to the South Street Bridge, where Children's plans to conduct computer-based research, is among the largest projects that Nutter's team has evaluated in the past two years, equal in square footage to both Comcast towers. And yet city planners stood passively by while the institutional Goliath ran circles around the David-sized neighborhood groups trying to shape it into a more urban development.

The design - a joint effort by Pelli Clarke Pelli and Philadelphia's Ballinger - is little changed from the original shown to residents two years ago. Four glassy office towers, up to 375 feet high, would ultimately be built on top of a long, three-story garage, forming a solid wall beside the blossoming Schuylkill Banks park. To provide access to this monstrous structure, Children's wants to cut two driveways into the South Street Bridge. While less central than Comcast's campus, the site is served by bus, shuttles, and the University City Regional Rail stop.

The impact of the design is sure to reverberate beyond the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Thousands of pedestrians and bicyclists cross the bridge daily on their way to jobs in West Philadelphia's expanding hospital-and-university district. The driveways will turn their commute into a game of chicken. You can also bet that the Children's garage will set a precedent for all future waterfront projects.

As a city, we talk about upholding traditional urban planning values. We want buildings that fit into William Penn's perfectly sized street grid, and have human activity on the ground floor to make us feel welcome and safe. While the complex may end up with a bit of retail tucked in a corner, the design calls for a blank garage wall at street level along most of Schuylkill Avenue, shielded by a heavily planted berm. The park that Children's calls "Bainbridge Place" is a glorified driveway.

In the phrase adopted by the design's opponents, which include the Design Advocacy Group, South Street West Business Association and South of South Street Neighborhood Association, there will be no human "interface" along the street.

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BOSTON The Massachusetts Port Authority Board today approved a partial project budget of $20 million to fund work on adding up to 2,050 parking spaces at Boston Logan International Airport.

Logan parking is limited. And even with 16,200 lined spaces available each day there are more than 50 times a year when demand for parking exceeds the number of lined spaces available. In the last 12 months, more than 70,000 cars were either valeted or diverted to a different lot than the one the customer wanted. Massport will start construction later this year on additions to the Central and Terminal B garages that will add 2050 spaces to Logans permitted inventory and will cost an estimated $60 million. The added spaces will be completed in 2015 and 2016.

The additions to the Central and Terminal B garages, located in the center of the airport campus, will reduce the need for a complimentary valet system that has been in place for four years to deal with excess cars. Costs associated with the garages and their debt service rose about $2.5 million last year and are expected to be higher this year as Massport leases space for parking in Suffolk Downs when all airport parking is full.

Managing the number of airport passengers and employees who drive to the airport is critical, especially when the number of Logan passengers grow each year. In 2013, Logan set a passenger record with 30.2 million. Passenger counts for the first three months of 2014 are ahead of the first quarter of 2013 by 2.2 percent.

Funding for the project will come from parking increases approved by the Board in April. The July 1, 2014 increase of $2 per day and $3 in 2016 will help keep pace with costs associated with operating, maintaining and improving the parking facilities at Logan. Parkers at Logan are offered free services such as jump starts, removing snow from vehicles, assistance locating their cars, and improved lighting in the Terminal B garage.

Rates at the four suburban Logan Express sites remain unchanged at $7 a day, providing travelers with another choice. Last month, Massport last month began regular bus service from the Back Bay to Logan for $5 per trip or free with a valid MBTA pass.

Boston Logan, 15 minutes from the intersection of Route 128 and I-90 and five minutes from downtown Boston, serves as the gateway to the New England region and offers nonstop service to 76 domestic and 36 international destinations and in 2013 handled 30.2 million passengers. Boston Logan is served by two public transit lines and is the Air Line Pilot Associations Airport of the Year for 2008 because of its commitment to safety. Over the past decade, the airport spent $4.5 billion on a modernization program that includes new terminals, public transportation access, parking facilities, roadways and airport concessions, and has been transformed into a world-class 21st Century facility. The airport generates $7 billion in total economic impact each year.

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The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) owns and operates Boston Logan International Airport, public terminals in the Port of Boston, Hanscom Field and Worcester Regional Airport.Massport is a financially self-sustaining public authority whose premier transportation facilities generate more than $8 billion annually, and enhance and enable economic growth and vitality in New England. No state tax dollars are used to fund operations or capital improvements at Massport facilities. For more information please visit massport.com.

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