{"id":81,"date":"2007-12-08T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/08\/jack-goodison-look-at-boston-for-port-model\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:27","slug":"jack-goodison-look-at-boston-for-port-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/08\/jack-goodison-look-at-boston-for-port-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Goodison: Look at Boston for port model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working Waterfront Alliance member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jgoodison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Goodison<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/opinion\/letters\/content\/LT_goodisonRDY_12-08-07_9284DLS_v8.2a720a6.html\" target=\"_blank\">letter to the editor in today&#8217;s <em>Providence Journal<\/em><\/a> about how Boston has protected and invested in its marine industrial resources:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As city planners work on the details of Providence&#8217;s comprehensive plan, they should look to what Boston has done to protect working-waterfront areas.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and &#8217;80s Boston purchased former military bases on the outskirts of Boston Harbor in South Boston. Resisting condo and hotel developers, the city chose to invest in and protect its deep-water marine resources. That investment is now paying off. In September of this year, the city approved a $130 million Boston Cargo Terminal project that will provide multi-modal ocean, rail, truck and air transportation for bulk cargo, seafood-processing and warehouse businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The city is also promoting its Boston Marine Industrial Park, which has recently received several proposals from developers.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, Boston&#8217;s marine industrial facilities house 180 businesses that employ 3,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>We could have the same success in Providence, if only our city planners would recognize the value of the deep-water channel we have right here in Providence Harbor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working Waterfront Alliance member Jack Goodison has a letter to the editor in today&#8217;s Providence Journal about how Boston has protected and invested in its marine industrial resources: As city planners work on the details of Providence&#8217;s comprehensive plan, they should look to what Boston has done to protect working-waterfront areas. In the 1970s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}