BRA gets bids up to $151 million for old Winthrop Square garage

1. Since all communication on behalf of the city's interests is being made by the BRA's spokesperson, it looks like the city has indeed ceded control of the property to the BRA, most likely on the same "keep it for an unknown length of time, and when you're done, pay us back whatever you earn minus your costs" agreement they had back in April. Since the BRA is a giant pit into which money vanishes, I doubt the city will get anywhere close to $150 million from the sale. If they get half of that, I'll be shocked.

2. Yep. With the tenuous justification of "If we assess it at what it's REALLY worth, we won't get bids for it," which is transparent horseshit.

Marty Walsh ran on the platform of reforming this bunch of ticks and leeches, and since taking office he's bowed to their every request. This latest round is going to siphon between $50 and $100 million out of the city's pockets and into the BRA's. This should be a scandal the size of Whitey, but Adam is the only one reporting on it.