The checkerboard pattern isn't the most offensive part of that image.
While I don't think it deserves a pass, this stretch of Tremont (Stuart to Oak) has always been disappointing from an urban perspective, especially when you consider that it's anchored by three lovely theaters and a historic hotel building (which seems criminal to brand as a Courtyard by Marriott, but I digress). As a a kid coming into town, i used to think that this stretch is where the city "ended" because you go from the density and vitality of the downtown core to an ultra-wide street that starts with the aforementioned theaters/hotel and abruptly becomes a gap in the streetwall, a hulking parking a garage, a surface lot, an Orange Line station, and a YMCA (at least I think that raised plaza is part of the Y) that does everything in its power to ignore the street around it.
The back of the Moxy should be better. But there's a LOT that needs to happen on that street before you can say that's the worst thing about the stretch.
