To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
If the plan is successful, it will be an impressive turnaround for the Navy Yard, a center of shipbuilding since the early 19th Century that declined into a windswept home of a police tow pound and warehouses.