Mayor Menino Still Wants to Move City Hall

Just when we got our hopes up that Mayor Thomas Menino had forgotten about his plans to move City Hall to South Boston, he declared yesterday that the move is still very much on his mind.

Jay Fitzgerald reported that Menino spoke at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast yesterday, and he said that he'd like to sell the current City Hall space at Government Center and then use the money to move.

While the concrete block that is Government Center isn't the prettiest building in the world, should it be straight-up junked? Bostonist is reprinting an architectural firm's vision of how Government Center could be modified, thereby saving people the trouble of having to take the Silver Line to get to City Hall.

The City Hall news is less than thrilling, but the mayor also spoke of a new "Green Collar Jobs" initiative that is designed to create "2,500 new jobs in the next five years," according to the mayor's office.

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