I was at the Beer Works meetings and came away very split. On the one hand, what Beer Works was proposing would be a huge, much-needed aesthetic upgrade to that building and would raise the bar of how Davis Square could look. It was classy, respectful, and had good ideas behind it. And given that the other option at the time was a crappy-looking 'mini mall' of a smoke shop, massage place, and Burger King, I was all for it. On the other hand, well... it's a Beer Works.

I disagree with the way Alderman Gewirtz personally handled the situation, but if it has a positive outcome, at least we avoided the worst case scenario.