After years of planning, three major redevelopment projects that are expected to transform Uphams Corner will converge on a single stretch of Columbia Road starting next year.
City Councillor Brian Worrell said Monday that he’s pressing forward with his candidacy for the council presidency next month, despite the fact that one of his colleagues has already declared victory in the contest.
City Councillor-at-Large Julia Mejia – backed by two colleagues and an assortment of constituents – is urging Mayor Wu to release a new cost estimate for the city’s share of expenses for the White Stadium project, which number she and other critics say has ballooned far beyond initial expectations laid out by the mayor.
From hand-knit hats to steaming hot chocolate, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (CSNDC) offered plenty to choose from its annual Holiday Market in the Great Hall on Friday and Saturday.
Members of a neighbor-led planning initiative focused on Codman Square have hired nine “ambassadors” and plan to launch their effort in earnest in January. Organizers say they intend to build off of city-led planning endeavor that began under a Squares + Streets re-zoning process last year.
A non-profit builder is planning a four-story, nine-unit condo building that would be sited next to the 135-unit Loop at Mattapan Station apartment complex. James Kostaras, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston, discussed the plan at the Dec.
The construction site for the Fields Corner Library on Park Street and Dorchester Avenue reveals the glulams – engineered wood – that form the superstructure as a sustainable alternative to steel beams. Seth Daniel photo
Megaphones blasted out chants that echoed across a chilly Codman Hill on Monday night as some 40 ralliers aired their objections to a Boston Public School proposal that would eliminate both the high school grades and a transition program for older students at Dorchester’s Henderson Upper School.
Capt. Sean McCarthy is the new commander at the B-3 police district, which covers parts of Dorchester and Mattapan.
The Latino Law Enforcement Group of Boston held a domino tournament at the Boston Police American Legion Post in Mattapan last Friday (Nov. 28).
Brookview House started with an ideal in the minds of a group of church friends who were not willing to accept family homelessness in Boston, and now 35 years later, they are celebrating how that ideal has shaped how family homelessness is successfully addressed.
The annual Dorchester Tree Lighting Committee held its cavalcade of lightings stretching from Port Norfolk to Peabody Square last Saturday (Nov. 29)
A series of residential projects on formerly vacant city-owned lots along the Glenway Street corridor have broken ground this fall and are under construction. Many of the lots have been empty for more than 30 years and were targeted in a process that began almost 10 years ago when then-District 4 Councillor Andrea Campbell worked to catalog all empty city lots.
Opponents of a Wu administration proposal to close or combine schools, including three in Dorchester, plan to hold a pair of rallies this week in hopes of influencing the Boston School Committee, which is expected to vote on the plan at its next meeting on Dec. 17.
The owner of Pho Que Restaurant at 291 Adams St. has told members of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) that he wants a full liquor or a beer-and-wine license from the city of Boston.
