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BRA Director Peter Meade To Retire in January

The Boston Redevelopment Authority leader told the Boston Business Journal he does not plan to stay on under a new mayor.

Boston Redevelopment Authority Director Peter Meade will be retiring in January, stepping down at the same time as Mayor Thomas Menino, the Boston Business Journal reported this week.

Appointed to the position in April 2011, Meade, 67, is considered a member of the mayor’s cabinet but also is appointed by the five-member BRA board, so he wouldn’t necessarily be ousted by the election of a new mayor, the article states.

But Meade told the BBJ that he is not interested in keeping the job under a new mayor, saying that, “I have a relationship with Mayor Menino that frankly I would never have with another mayor.”

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Meade also said he had promised his family he would retire, according to the article.

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