Boston Calling's City Hall Plaza Deemed 'Structurally Unsafe' One Week Before ...

According to The Boston Herald, just days before the Boston Calling music festival over Memorial Day weekend, a top city manager hired a contractor to 'secretly fix a huge defect' in City Hall Plaza, the festival's venue.

The incident was apparently 'unbeknownst' to the Walsh administration, who told the Herald they found out about the incident yesterday after inquiries from Herald reporters.

The Herald reports that Michael Galvin, the head of the city's Property Management Division, put up a tent to hide 'emergency repairs' on a 30-foot-by-30-foot danger zone, where the remains of a now defunct fountain had been capped in 2006. Reports from engineers with Weidlinger Associates stated that the structure could collapse at any moment a week before the concerts began.

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