What makes this opinion article work

Excerpt from an opinion article from the Boston Globe on why Boston City Hall should be torn down:

"City Hall is so ugly that its insane upside-down wedding-cake columns and windswept plaza distract from the building’s true offense. Its great crime isn’t being ugly; it’s being anti-urban. The building and its plaza keep a crowded city at arm’s length. It disperses crowds, instead of gathering them together. It creates an island of inactivity, several blocks long and wide, in the middle of what is otherwise a bustling commercial district. It’s as if the complex’s architects vowed to make up for the bawdy sins of Scollay Square by creating a space that no one would ever want to congregate around. The primary function of cities is clustering people together, but City Hall goes to great lengths to repel them." ~ Paul McMorrow 

At first read of this excerpt I felt bad for City Hall due to McMorrow's verbal lashing of how ugly it is, but on second read I was in agreement. McMorrow won me over with this opinion not only for this excerpt, but the logic he puts into the piece which makes perfect sense. This building is not only seen as ugly, but it is out of place and prevents the usual city construction of clustering people together. 

Next excerpt:
"The costs of letting City Hall stand are far steeper now than they were in the urban renewal era, when downtown land was at a surplus. Downtown Boston is running out of office tower development sites. Boston only has six major office development sites left downtown. It needs to find new room to grow. City Hall and the surrounding plaza could easily yield four new towers in a part of town that’s desperate for new land, and urbanize a part of town that’s been dark for half of a century. That’s not a political platform. It’s a map to the city’s economic future." ~ Paul McMorrow

The conclusion to this piece hits home. McMorrow ties in the economic perspective, and in this time in age, economy is striving to be get better and what else won't make people not agree with this when its put in the perspective of more jobs? Four new towers created in its place makes room for jobs, and makes it more city like and in place with its surroundings. If Boston wants to get more companies in the city, they need to make smart decisions, and McMorrow has the right plan in mind.

What makes this opinion article good is how McMorrow looks at different perspectives to why it should be torn down and it's positives. Economy is huge in this day and age, and for economy to be the major idea McMorrow focuses on, makes this idea of tearing down Boston City Hall a good decision.