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Really cool drone fly-through in honor of the Bruins centennial showcasing some of this development.

While going through a relatives old things, we came across this interesting street map made by the Convention Bureau of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in 1946. I have included some photos of it below along with a link to a PDF scan of it. Link...

I wish this was the case with most of these big developments around the city. Most of the time, someone just sells a huge tract of land, but here? It would've made a lot of sense. Maybe it comes down to pushing infrastructure costs onto the developer instead of the city.

What? Having fun? How dare they.

Looks more like an office building than residential. Also feel like the first floor units facing the street should just be more retail.

I really appreciate the photos, but are we really getting anything out of these now since there don't seem to be any significant changes to the skyline? I keep coming to this thread thinking there is some sort of new activity or update and just keep seeing photos taken from afar. Again, the...

Glad to see the check cashing place is staying on the corner.

Yeah I am shocked the lot on Washington has sat like that for so long. Looking at the LOI, it does look like they've scaled back the size, so maybe that means they will keep some of the greenery.

Ascend..but the arrow points down?

It looks like they already have tenants lined up, including a dispensary on the first floor, an education center on the second and offices on the third. I also like the fact that there is dedicated bike storage in the basement. Overall great infill and please copy and paste this all over.

For those interested, the branding for Fenway Center was recently released, and it's very nice. https://www.mubien.com/portfolio/fenway-center/

Unfortunately what I think will likely happen is that we will continue to get all of this cheap infill and once the population grows and matures, there will be a demand to upscale and some of the older stock will be rebuilt and look a lot nicer. If only some foresight and actual planning was...

Which one is it? If nobody goes there, how is it crowded...🤔 But in all seriousness, I do think that the area is far too isolated to everything but vehicle traffic. Better connections to the adjacent neighborhoods are really going to be needed in the near future to really tie this area into the...

Looks like they are moving to the former Bfresh location which before that was a Staples (which I worked at back in the day). Hopefully that means this lot will be developed since its a decent size and seems very suburban for Comm Ave. The 214 Harvard Ave location does still have parking, but...

According to the website, it looks like Aimco will be managing.

I am a fan of Nat Varmac's redesign of the Boston city flag: https://medium.com/@natvarmac/a-better-flag-for-boston-massachusetts-c14ce0e86333 He even includes some team rebrandings of the flag:

Here is another one I found, this time from graphic designer Ed Mitchell. He attempted to bring a more cohesive visual language that all of the flags follow. Here is the design for Massachusetts: Here is the rest of the flags for reference: https://www.bresslergroup.com/blog/united-we-stand/

I love the idea of redesigning the state flag. I was looking around to see if anyone has attempted this in the past and stumbled upon the work of Adam A. Smith who is a professor at the University of Puget Sound. He did a redesign of all of the state flags to varying degrees of success. Here is...

I agree, these buildings are butt ugly. They must just throw a dart at a color wheel and oops it landed on neon piss yellow, I guess that's our accent color..