The deal maker Friend, consultant, manager: Walsh is `go-to guy' in development

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: March 8, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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Robert F. Walsh never liked the idea of the Long Wharf Marriott, a veritable brick wall of a structure between the city and its harbor.

As Boston's chief planner, the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, in the 1970s, Walsh opposed the Marriott in the name of average Bostonians whose views would be surrendered to hotel guests. But Mayor Kevin H. White, prodded by developer friends, overrode Walsh's objections to the hotel across from Faneuil Hall, and soon after, Walsh was ousted from the job. It was a lesson Bob Walsh ...

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