[brianstorms]

The first comment on the article's page is interesting. I wonder if the building is acting like a Faraday cage and blocking cellphone signals.

As for the question posed in the title, no, this is what politics looks like. This is what happens when developers get together with investors and politicians and tech startups and they all decide they want to renovate an area of town and build some new building and bring in a bunch of companies that generate jobs and tax revenue and, happily, provide a place for media photo ops with the dignitaries -- it all looks good, it makes everybody look good, but what has come out of this place so far?

Innovation is not real estate development, it's not a building, it's not politics. If the teams inside this center create new technologies, new ways of doing things, optimizing existing ways, then perhaps there's innovation.

Otherwise it's just a political/media buzzword.