Another Snowy Day

The Bobcat and yellow excavator were covered with snow when workers first arrived at the Boylston Street site. Today the excavator tore down the last structures at the front of the site and began a sweep-up of the rest of the space. The temperature was 32 degrees when the work began around 7 a.m., and hit a high of just 33 degrees during the day. The time-lapse shows snow flurries at about 10:45 a.m. as the excavator took on the small remaining part of the building at the front-basement level. After that material was loaded up on trucks, the excavator began cleaning up other areas of the site, turning the ground from snowy white to Boston dirt-brown, and finally revealing the flat concrete foundation of the site at some places. By the way, if you look across Boylston Street, you can see another construction site, the location of the future Mandarin Oriental project, which will include a hotel, condos and apartments, along with a plaza and retail development.