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Yet I'd argue it's the most-consistently well-lit building we have.

The Boston Agent article is mixing two locations up. Maybe because the opening line of the Masslive article is also wrong? Walnut Street is in south Foxboro off 128, near the Mansfield line. It used to have (maybe still does?) a bunch of Section 8 housing. New senior housing will be built here...

Sorry to be that guy, but the Japan numbers in shrinkthatfootprint are misleading in context of our discussion here. The average house size in Tokyo is 91 sq meters (980 sq feet), but detached houses made up only 28% of occupied housing in 2020. The average apartment size, where 69% of the...

I for one welcome our new extremist Android repair software and сторидж overlords from China!

^^^---- I worked for WPP / GroupM for a decade, and during the mid 2010s Mindshare was HQ'd at 1 St. Giles (the orange building on the right in all the pics above) . I spent about 3 months combined over the years working out of that complex and it's really nice.

And as a former Foxboro resident with parents still living there, I can tell you the town makes out quite well. Kraft pays Foxboro $2.55 per ticket for special events and a $1.47 per ticket for Pats and Revs games. It's been a minimum $2 million in revenue for the town every year since the new...

Wait . . . is the blue on those corner balconies permanent or just unwrapped?

I'll say that as someone who grew up in Foxboro, few people take Rt 1 up to Automile and beyond (I hope it's still called that and I'm not dating myself too hard) for shopping. Everyone seemed to orient towards Mansfield or the NA / Attleboro Rt 1 clusterfuck past the Emerald Square Mall for...

I don't have a horse in the home owner vs. greater good / utility debate, but please let me impress on you all that Rings are scary. The volume and granularity of private data they collect is way worse than anything ByteDance or Google are capable of vacuuming up. Ring is part of Amazon, and...

Jerry Jones :ROFLMAO:

THANK YOU! Even for a big PoMo fan like me, this would have been a bit too much.

I've seen renderings floating around from 1986-87 that showed 500 Boylston as a twin set atop a shared base. I just spent more time than I should have trying to find that image in Google. No luck. EDIT: just saw the rest of the discussion. I should read everything before posting.

This is the single key issue that has and will continue to bedevil the Boston skyline. I think most of us would be fine with the repetitive terracotta colorways, the clinging to dated colossal order, the 30 degree sloped roofs . . . all of this would be "fine" if the height to width ratios were...

Purple spells "One Dream" and I think the top blue line also spells "One", but I can't make out the rest.

I've stayed at the Mandarin in Boston, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and at Raffles in Singapore. The Mandarin in Boston is not on par with Tokyo's or HK's, and it's a whole tier below the Singapore Raffles. It was a disappointment. The Singapore Raffles maybe the best hotel experience I've ever had...

I had no idea Fairhaven looks like this!

I've watched this thing three times in a row right now, I can't stop. I'm also baffled at the (pretty sure it's an) Aussie accent never mentioning Boston once, and I too am suspicious this is a mostly recycled assets. The wipe at about 23 seconds looks like it was spliced in. The "a place that...

Glad to see the area is still full of retail and that my favorite high school Friendly's is still around. I didn't see Guitar Center in your list but it's still there too. The taxes from this stretch must make up a decent bit of NA's and Attleboro's municipal budgets. Birthday parties at the...

We must be about the same age and grew up in the same area. Foxboro, class of 2000. That whole stretch of Rt 1 in North Attleboro / Attleboro in the 90s and early 2000s was as you perfectly put it: booming. I must have went there at least 2, 3 nights a week in the summers of 98 and 99 (when gas...

What a change. In my mind, the Emerald Square Mall will always be like in the video below. I was in 7th grade when this was taken (November 1994) and very well may have been doing early Christmas shopping in this video.