With the U.S. Olympic Committee expected next week to begin its road show to Boston and three other cities on its shortlist to host the 2024 Summer Games, John Fish is facing a tough sell to get naysayers to consider the bid, much less embrace it.
"I think the biggest hurdle is convincing people, the common person, to engage in the conversation in a thoughtful way without saying to themselves 'I do not want the Olympics in Boston,'" said Fish, the CEO of Suffolk Construction who is spearheading the effort to land the Games. "We are not asking people to host the Olympics. We are asking people to entertain the conversation about the potential of hosting an Olympic venue."
Fish said yesterday on Boston Herald Radio that getting public support for the Olympic plan is critical to sway the U.S. Olympic Committee to pick the Hub over three other contenders: San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
"They will review traffic, they will review infrastructure, and they will review the temperature socially of how it's going to be sort of met with in the community," he said. "The United States Olympic Committee does not want to entertain a host city that does not support this value proposition."
Fish said Mitt Romney, who rescued the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, suggested treating the Olympic bid as a business venture.
"His advice was to us, our committee, you can win this thing, if you really want, but you have continue executing as if it is a business plan, a business strategy ... We are going to specifically take a business approach. And we are going to work with City Hall and the State House to see if this is right for us.
Among the greatest costs will be building the Olympic Stadium and Olympic Village, which he noted could be turned over to a college for student housing.
"There are one strong and potentially two institutions that would like to engage in a conversation (to build a stadium). That would be a public-private partnership, where it would be privately financed to a college or a university or a sports team that could utilize it," he said.
Fish mentioned that Cambridge, Somerville and East Boston as possible sites for some of the larger venues. "The most important thing we can bring to this equation is our impact and our passion to youth and sport. It's in our blood," he said. "Why don't we let the world see what offerings Boston, Massachusetts, and the commonwealth have ... and our love and passion for sport."
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