Hill Street Beauty Spot

The Hill Street Beauty Spot has been on Memorial Drive since I moved here in 2007. In fact, I remember the abandoned buildings that used to be around it.
While it doesn’t really live up to its name as a beauty spot (doesn’t that sound like a term for a salon for old white ladies?), it just seems a little random for a part of town you really don’t want to be hanging out at after 10 pm. Can it be called the «Hill Street Random Spot»?

Despite the sign and living right across the street, I had no idea this was an actual site to behold. Wait, I take that back, it IS a site to behold. It’s that place where the homeless stand and talk and that guy on the hoveround likes to «drive» out in front of me as I’m coming home from work. Then on the opposing corner is another gaggle of homeless sitting on the stone by the church.
I’m not exactly sure why they mulched it all up, but it looks pretty great when driving down Memorial. Much better than it used to look, that’s for sure.
And you’d get a 5^th star if that damn hoveround weren’t always gunning for my car.

Hill Street Beauty Spot, I passed you everyday back when I had a job. Now I just pass you whenever I pick up gyros from Nick’s To Go. Or BBQ from Daddy Dz. Or when I’m driving to the Poncey-​Highlands for drinks. So basically, I still you see everyday.
I appreciate the effort, Hill Street Beauty Spot if not the lack of creativity in naming you. Well, I guess they were really kind of limited in choices. «Hill Street.» Ok, that makes sense. «Beauty Spot.» Well, that’s about the outer edge of superlatives that end of Hill Street can bear. I doubt many would accept «Hill Street’s Location of Stupendous Pulchritude» nor would they swallow «Hill Street’s Median of the Becoming» though, knowing how streetwalkers used to lounge in this area, if someone would be coming here, undoubtedly much swallowing would follow.
So we’re stuck with the Hill Street Beauty Spot, an area of median on Hill Street gussied up with plants and flowers and other assorted landscaping tricks. Oh and a huge wooden sign that declares in no uncertain terms «Hill Street Beauty Spot.»
Well okay then.
In fact, since the city demolished the last of the projects nearby on Memorial, they’ve terraformed the remaining parcels into a land of rocks and mulch. Not much in the way of a park, but it beats the Squatters Sheraton/​Hobo Hotel that was there. So, Hill Street Beauty Spot, you get an A for Effort and a C for Execution. Let’s just average that out to 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.