Boston's hopes to land the Summer Olympics will hinge upon creating a "compact" games, where venues would be either within walking distance of each other or accessible by mass transit, the head of Boston 2024 said yesterday.
Many of the venues would belong to local universities — field hockey at Harvard Stadium, for example, Dan O'Connell said, and archery and fencing most likely at MIT — and some would be adapted or upgraded with the cooperation of the universities and the U.S. Olympic Committee, which is expected to decide as early as December which of four cities — Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington, D.C. — it will nominate to the International Olympic Committee to serve as the host city for the games.
Venues that are not within walking distance of each other would be in locations accessible by existing transportation routes, such as the Merrimac River in Lowell, where rowing matches would be held, he said, or areas where upgrades are planned under a 10-year capital program Gov. Deval Patrick proposed, a significant portion of which the Legislature authorized bond funding for, but which the next governor would have to approve.
O'Connell said the games — with an estimated cost of $4.5 billion — would be funded through broadcast revenues, $1.2 billion of which would go to the host city; international sponsorships; and ticket sales, for which there would likely be a lottery for local residents. The Secret Service would coordinate security, with all costs being reimbursed by the federal government, O'Connell said.
Equestrian matches would be held at Franklin Park, where White Stadium would be rebuilt and a new swimming pool would be installed, he said, while the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, which is scheduled to be expanded, would be the site of six venues and have events such as judo and table tennis.
South Station would need six to seven new train platforms to increase commuter rail capacity, O'Connell said, and new cars and signals on the Orange and Red lines would also increase capacity by 30 percent to 40 percent, without requiring additional tracks.
The Olympic Games would require 45,000 rooms at three- to five-star hotels within the Route 128 perimeter — rooms that already exist, O'Connell said, and 5,000 more rooms are permitted and scheduled for development before 2024.
In a statement yesterday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said, it's "important to note that this is a very fluid process, and this is just the beginning of a long and robust public dialogue."
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