Copley Square Revamp | Back Bay

[Kinopio]

What a ridiculous amount of time spent on this. Close that block of Dartmouth to cars already.

 

[HenryAlan]

(Sad trombone)

Looking like December 2024

Improvements to Copley Square Park

CONSTRUCTION NOTICE: Renovations to Copley Square Park started on July 20, 2023. We expect this project will take 16 months, and will be reopened in DECEMBER of 2024. Construction updates are listed below on this page, in the "related documents" section.

www.boston.gov

That sucks, I had expected this to be done in time for the marathon.

 

[taketern]

4/26

 

[Longfellow]

These planks around planted trees, do ther actually work to hold it up? Seems so odd and I see it a lot

 

[bbfen]

These planks around planted trees, do ther actually work to hold it up? Seems so odd and I see it a lot

They're commonly used to protect the base of the tree from the errant hit by a bobcat or workers moving bulk material onto sites.

 

[bakgwailo]

"Shaded Grove" - I was lead to believe that any shade on Copley Square would instantly cause Trinity to burst into a fireball engulfing the Square and old wing of the library instantly. Also, "grove", given the picture, writes its own jokes I feel.