We’re talking about a new office building and park on the waterfront, not just a federal court house............Whatever.....Sheesh!
Well now, wait a minute. Was the project built with taxpayer dollars or not? I read the article a 2nd time and it does not say, but the article certainly seems to imply this is a “Federal Courthouse plus”.
If this was a government & private joint venture which undercut the cost to the gov’t of a not-extravagant stand alone courthouse, then I withdraw my complaint. The same if the gov’t in effect “breaks even or comes out “in the black” in, oh, say, 10 years, compared to said stand alone courthouse. (I assume an objective cost / benefit analysis would show some increase in tax revenues due to “enhancement” of the waterfront area.)