Plans to memorialize outgoing Mayor Thomas M. Menino's contributions to Boston have yet to begin, but city leaders have some suggestions — including renaming the concrete jungle that is City Hall Plaza.
"I like the idea … plant some grass, and some trees — we could have a whole new Menino Plaza," City Councilor Salvatore LaMattina said. "I would love to see a Menino statue on Menino Plaza."
Possibilities for commemorating the mayor's legacy can be found in every part of the city, according to LaMattina. "In my neighborhood, there's the police station in Charlestown, the schools, the parks," he said. "And in East Boston, a brand-new library is being built as we speak."
There's strong precedent for honoring mayors: the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge, Hynes Convention Center, Curley Community Center and the Kevin White statue at Faneuil Hall. In fact, Menino already has a Hyde Park library wing and a Boston Medical Center pavilion named after him.
"We should pay tribute to his inspiring leadership in a lasting, public way," said Paul Guzzi, CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
City Councilor Michael Ross identified what he sees as the "perfect" edifice to bear Menino's name — the new school planned for Commercial Street in the North End, especially since it's the first downtown public elementary school since the Jimmy Carter administration, he said. "That school should be called the Thomas M. Menino Elementary School," he said. "It's the former Mitt Romney (presidential campaign) headquarters. That would be the greatest irony."
Back in 2006, Menino confidantes floated the idea of renaming the $800 million Boston Convention & Exhibition Center as the Thomas M. Menino Convention Center, but there's been no such current talk, a BCEC spokesman said.
City Council President Stephen J. Murphy threw out this suggestion: putting Menino's name on the Ferdinand building in Roxbury's Dudley Square, set to become the new Boston Public Schools headquarters. "Tom Menino has been the mayor of the neighborhoods, and one of his big priorities — and soon to be his achievement — is revitalizing Dudley Square with the infusion of several thousands of municipal workers," he said. "It's his vision, it's his achievement and it should bear his name."
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