$4.6B ‘Bid 2.0′ Unveiled by Boston 2024 Olympics Organizers

The group trying to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston has released the most detailed look yet at its bid for the Summer Games.

It says its $4.6 billion plan would create jobs and housing, expand the tax base and leave behind an improved city with a $210 million surplus.

The announcement is designed to answer critics who say the privately funded Boston 2024 has withheld details of the bid to prevent the public from assessing whether the games could be staged without taxpayer money.

Bid chairman Steve Pagliuca, a co-owner of the Boston Celtics, says the new plan goes deeper than the proposal that convinced the USOC to pick Boston in January over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington.

The bid has stumbled since getting the nod from the USOC, with local opposition and low poll numbers.

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