The head of Massport told the Herald yesterday he has no intention of publicly releasing the six bids to build an $800 million "headquarters hotel" on authority-owned land as part of the $1 billion Boston Convention & Exhibition Center expansion — at least until after the developer is selected later this summer.
"Should the bids be made public at this early stage, it would undercut the public sector's ability to negotiate a good deal," Massport CEO Thomas P. Glynn said in an interview after his authority, citing state law, turned down a Herald public records request seeking copies of the bids. "If each of the bidders knew what the other had bid … you would lose leverage."
Glynn, however, left open the possibility of releasing the names of equity partners and other silent investors hidden behind limited liability corporations that are among those vying to build the 1,000- to 1,200-room hotel across from the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
"I certainly have not ruled it out," said Glynn, calling the Boston Redevelopment Authority's new policy of forcing developers to disclose investors in a project a "good idea. We have not requested that information from the bidders. We don't have a fact base to have an opinion on that yet."
The Herald reported yesterday that two former members of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority's board, former U.S. Sen. William "Mo" Cowan and Congress Group founder Dean Stratouly, are part of a development team behind an Omni Hotel and Resorts-backed bid.
Cowan, former Gov. Deval Patrick's chief of staff and chief legal counsel, served on the MCCA board for two years, until 2010. Stratouly served on it for 12 years. State law provides for a one-year cooling off period before investing in a project that fell under their official purview — both Cowan and Stratouly have passed that period.
"When high-ranking officials leave office and return seeking contracts and approvals from the agencies they led, it creates a genuine vulnerability to unfair influence and skepticism in the minds of the general public and business competitors," said Gregory W. Sullivan, former state Inspector General and now at the Pioneer Institute. "The Legislature should toughen the anti-revolving door laws."
Sullivan, whose testimony last June at a state Senate hearing helped lead to the stripping of $110 million he alleged was a hidden state subsidy to build the hotel as part of the $1 billion convention center expansion bill, said MCCA deals need "to be free of any political influence."
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