ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: C's and the city: Both looking very good

So, I am totally wiped. I've been at the Enterprise 2.0 conference here in Boston since Monday, and it has literally been morning to night for three days straight. I finally have a moment to collect myself.

I just wanted to share a really cool article about Boston, and how it has turned around in the last few years by Simmons. He looks at it from the perspective of Game 2 of the Finals, but I think he does a great job of summarizing how Boston has changed. Here's the full article: ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: C's and the city: Both looking very good

And a quote:
"Once upon a time, Boston was a pretty easy place to understand. Things never changed and, more importantly, we liked it that things never changed. Life revolved around the weather cycles (often brutal), the sports teams (often disappointing) and those occasionally fabulous days in April or October when the sun was shining and there wasn't a prettier place to be. We dealt with traffic, snow, construction, parking problems and sports letdowns year after year, and that's just who we were. Everything was symbolized by the Big Dig, a project that promised to rejuvenate the city and put our highways underground, only it fell years behind schedule and bled billions in cost overruns, rendering Boston impotent for a number of years. I graduated from college in '92 and spent the next decade living in the city (mostly in Charlestown) dealing with jackhammers and detours the entire time. After a while, you stopped thinking about it and assumed that's the way the city would always be -- mangled, ugly and messed up. Nobody could conceive of life after the Big Dig. It just seemed incomprehensible. Well, the project finally ended two years ago."