Now that G.I. Joe, Mr. Potato Head and the Twilight Sparkle are moving in, it might be time to ask the question: Why don’t we just stop dissing the Seaport?

Hasbro announced this week that it had chosen Boston’s most maligned neighborhood for its new headquarters, abandoning Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the process.

Which got me thinking: wouldn’t any city be proud of turning empty parking lots and underused industrial land into a sparkling and vibrant “second downtown”? And to do it over the course of just two decades?

Almost as soon as I’d posted on LinkedIn about Hasbro’s news yesterday, a commenter chimed in about the company’s choice of an office on Summer Street, near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center: “The Seaport is a Minecraft-esque copy-and-paste piece of land, devoid o

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