Mayor Michelle Wu is looking to a familiar and controversial name from the past to help oversee development in Boston at a time when plans for new housing, labs and other projects are stuck on the drawing boards.
Wu has picked a new chief planner for the city, with the decision coming on the eve of a big speech the mayor is scheduled to give Wednesday morning to members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, city insiders tell Contrarian Boston. (As we were finishing our story, city officials issued a press release – we’ll add the link when we get it.)
Wu’s choice? Kairos Shen, a one-time rising star in the planning department at the old Boston Redevelopment Authority, who left under a cloud during the Walsh Administration.
