The STINK ELITES worried about the VIEW gonna pick up the tab?
Didn't think so!!
Also read: Rich and Homeless Living Together to better understand the situation.
"Tower may soon shed its fund-raising cloak; Ads helped Pine Street Inn raise $2m for repairs" by Elizabeth Campbell, Globe Correspondent | August 12, 2008
Advertising contracts have helped fund a restoration project that was originally estimated at $800,000, but has ballooned to more than $2.3 million and taken longer than anticipated, said Barbara Trevisan, spokeswoman for the Pine Street Inn, a nonprofit that provides emergency shelter and services to homeless people, housing about 700 nightly. But the ads also have obscured the tower's facade, prompting objections from Boston preservationists, who have long urged the shelter to commit to a date for removing the banners and scaffolding.
They aren't living on the streets, right? That's what I thought!
"The fact is, if we could, we would keep [the advertising] up longer to get some additional revenue," Trevisan said. But she acknowledged that the South End Landmark District Commission and other neighborhood groups are eager to see it go.
Yeah, to HELL with the HOMELESS, huh?
Time to EAT the FUCKING RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!
The cost of the project, and the time needed to complete it, increased after more structural and water damage than expected were discovered, according to Trevisan. The work was actually completed late last year, she said, but the scaffolding will remain in place until October or November, when an advertising contract with Verizon Communications Inc. expires. She could not provide a more specific date.
Since 2000, other companies - such as Dunkin' Donuts Inc. and Apple Computers Inc. - have used the tower for advertising, generating more than $2 million in revenue for the shelter. The money, along with a $300,000 grant from Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., was used to pay for the project, officials said.
The shelter considered it "lucky" that advertising proved to be an option for fund-raising, Trevisan said.
Well, NOT ANYMORE!!! Thanks, elite assholes!!!!!
Pine Street Inn's tower is not part of the South End Landmark District, said Kate Neuner, preservation planner for the South End Landmark District Commission, which means the group does not have the authority to force the shelter to remove the ads. Still, the commission does not believe "a historic landmark should be used for advertising purposes," Neuner said.
(Blog author just shaking his head)
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!
The Inn ISN'T EVEN in the FUCKING BUSY-BODY'S DISTRICT!!!!
Well WHO is going to help the homeless then, you elite stinkshit?
These are the kind of people that would have turned away Mary and Joseph!
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