Kraft snookers Foxborough

Sssshhhhhh!

You can't speak ill of the Kraft Machine because they shower the appropriate people with largess. They control the Boards.

No one knows or asks what the presence of the monstrosity on Route 1 costs the Town.

In Foxborough, it moves beyond genuflecting to prostration.

Just keep praising and prostrating as a community is destroyed - No questions asked!



Foxboro office park talk revs up
BY FRANK MORTIMER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Just 18 days before the private August 8th meeting when the casino was discussed.

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Kraft Group, town officials huddle on Route 1 plans
FOXBORO - Kraft Group leaders are laying new groundwork for building a high-technology office park on Route 1, a pedestrian bridge over the busy road and a commuter rail stop to unite the office complex, Patriot Place and Gillette Stadium, town officials say.

Several Kraft Group leaders, including project manager Dan Krantz and two Kraft attorneys, met last week with Town Manager Kevin Paicos, Building Commissioner William Casbarra and Town Planner Sharon Wason to discuss the office park, which two years ago was envisioned as a 1.6 million-square-foot complex with some retail that would bring hundreds of jobs and boost local tax revenues.

"Generally, we talked about how to get the bridge project funding advanced on the state's priority list," Paicos said. [There goes that PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE TO NOWHERE to reward a private investor at taxpayer expense.]

He said the planned walkover is now "very low" on the state's the transportation improvement plan funding list.

"We want to get it prioritized so the Kraft Group can use the imminent construction to attract the first major business to the technology park," Paicos said. He said the first step will be to have Wason and himself appointed to government transportation committees "so we are positioned to move the funding along."

"They're exploring funding possibilities for transportation improvements," Wason said.

The pedestrian bridge was previously bypassed for federal stimulus money.

The Kraft Group and the planning board were scheduled last week to informally discuss zoning changes needed for the office park project. Kraft representatives postponed that public session, which was to occur just hours after the private meeting.

Foxboro residents may be asked to vote zoning changes in the Route 1 Economic Overlay District at the fall special town meeting, Casbarra said.

This will "allow the future development in conjunction with the bridge," Casbarra said. "All of these pieces will be moving forward."

Casbarra said some people have the misconception that the main purpose of the pedestrian bridge is to serve stadium complex patrons who park on the far side of Route 1.

"It's about the future development of the biotech park and the development of the entire area," Casbarra said. "It's one piece of the entire vision of the Economic Overlay District."

The district might also see installation of windmill turbines and regular rail service [at taxpayer expense] to the MBTA stop that's now used primarily on football game days.