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I get what you're saying...hopefully it doesn't look miserable, but there's got to be an artistic way reflect the tough winters of the area.

haha that or, to use another quote from the Simpsons episode in my last post, I can go just there and enjoy their great beer but order rudely: "Just give me another beer you brain dead hick!"

Damn, that's too bad...it's also incredibly unreasonable haha. That's it, I'm going to find a new brewery to drink in, and I'm going to get drunker than I've ever been in my entire life!

That is a bizarre complaint on his part...are you sure he was 100% serious? It sounds like something someone would say tongue in cheek.

I'm not familiar with the Natick Mall...does a grocery store there make any sense? If it's a relatively typical mall, it does seem like a bizarre choice due to parking scarcity.

I think it's great...great beer, too. What's so bad about the name?

I think the project will look a lot better once the parking lots to the South are developed and it becomes part of an urban fabric. The base does a good job blending in with the older buildings to the North of it, but without any neighbors to the South it looks too hulking.

I will raise my hand and say I didn't realize Walsh had pivoted so strongly vs Menino. Though to be honest, I was blaming the city more than the developer in this case haha. Regardless of who's to blame, I'm still a bit bummed. Absolutely...that's why I prefaced my previous post with the...

Great points. If this was a normal proposal I think we all would have been happy with what was built, but the timeline of the project prevents it from being any better than mediocre. Even if the 1,000+ footer was never going to happen, some of the realistic proposals that followed were great and...

Yeah after doing a quick Google search I think that may be the case. I saw one source that said overall VC in 2020 in the Bay was ~$12B and Boston was ~$8B but then I saw another source saying the Bay had >$50B in VC, so I'm really not sure if this is specifically for biotech or what it...

Wow, Boston actually outdid the Bay Area for VC last year? That's gotta be the first time since they started recording VC that the Bay Area wasn't (far & away) #1.

Whenever I hear "meta" used it reminds me of this clip from the TV show Community:

Per usual, the Globe comments don't disappoint.

Not to pig-pile on Kent, but he probably should have specified high rise architecture, which has never been a huge strong-suit of Boston. We have some very nice towers, but there is also an overwhelming amount of ugly brown boxes from the 70s/80s which tend to dominate the skyline.

While it's not an ugly building, I think you're glorifying what exists here a little bit. From the front it's a handsome, but on the side it's pretty nasty and it's only made worse by a fenced off side yard which is half park, half utilities and blocked off from the public. The renderings...

This new revision stinks compared to the original proposal. I understand we're not gonna get the original, but what a massive downgrade this is.

If it's a Courtyard Marriott or Hilton Garden Inn I know this wouldn't come into play, but if this were more along the lines of Park Hyatt I wonder if they'd insist on a residential component? It seems like all of the most luxurious hospitality brands in Boston (Mandarin Oriental, Raffles, Four...

I don't have an answer, but that's a great picture! Not sure why, but the Encore peeking out over the top of the industrial buildings really does it for me haha