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Gonna tell my kids this is Boston

Fleshing out this thread... not that Bedford is at the "HE'S ON FIRE!!!" construction status of Lexington, but things have visibly ticked up a notch or two in the last couple years. Here's some pics from today. Four condos where there used to be one house 18 where there used to be two houses...

Without trying to dox myself, I live half a block away and 95% of the time my drives involve going through that intersection. Also I walk my dog there all the time and they just took the sidewalks on all four corners away 🫡

Oh dang, I totally forgot my town now has a thread on aB! RandomWalk, I'm going to have to ask you to kindly back away and GET OFF MY TURF 😤😤😤 Here's the fire station back in July And associated roadwork chaos 8/14 The condo project on Railroad Ave And demolition has just...

From Lexington

Oh man, I'm going to be taking my wife to Toscano for her birthday dinner next week and this is literally around the corner. Your timing is impeccable, sir! Meanwhile, in a slightly less lofty part of Cambridge is this thing which is partying like it's 1989 and you might be able to rent a brand...

Both existing buildings have new signs of life, whether that's a new tenant going in and doing renovations or there now being a "for lease" sign in the windows. This one is almost assuredly dead. Meanwhile, 7 Hartwell on August 4th 17 Hartwell on the 4th And 17 Hartwell last night, 8/13...

As the once-prolific forumer czsz once said about one of my posts about Buffalo, NY, "yeah well skeletons have good bones" 💀

Haven't gone in here in years

Oh totally. The pixelated thing is boorish at best, and my comments were just as much about saying "it's not as terrible as my super low expectations would've led me to believe!" as it was about actually analyzing the space for what it was. What I was getting at but didn't explicitly say was I...

Absolutely, and I'm particularly intrigued by this example because the previous Copley iteration had the larger lawn with better defined edges and people would regularly plop down and chill there for meaningful stretches of time. It would seem the complete lack of edges and general blankness...

^^ I like that this one block of Tremont transports me to 8th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.... truly a lovely ambiance :p

OK here’s the rest of my photos and I've now gathered my thoughts... So this is the first time I’ve been to Copley Square in at least a few years and definitely the first time seeing it post-renovation. I’ve read all the scuttlebutt about the hardscape and while I fully agree that the color and...