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Mice, cockroaches, mold, shut-off heat, no electricity, jammed doors, open gasoline canisters. This is what we live with, said the tenants of several dilapidated Dorchester and Mattapan properties as they loudly protested on Monday evening week against... Read more
Squinting out the window onto the sidewalks of Adams Corner through thin, rectangular spectacles dangling from tip of his nose, Jeff Cincotta surveys his domain. “You never find the best food in the middle of the city,” he says, nudging the bridge of his... Read more
Businesses and residents abutting 114B Stoughton St. may have had no idea what the strange packages entering and exiting the hair-braiding salon contained, but smoked fish likely would not have topped the guessing list.
Earlier this month, the city’s... Read more
(Updated Wed., July 20)— As news on a new agreement to sell the 16-acre Boston Globe property on Morrissey Boulevard continues to break, car magnate Herb Chambers – who owns an abutting property that could prove to be a lynchpin in still-emerging... Read more
The Boston Redevelopment Authority's board of directors has given its blessing to another significant mixed-use development across from Ashmont station. A proposal to build a new 64-unit apartment complex on what is now the former Odwin Learning Center at... Read more
One of the pieces of legislation Gov. Charlie Baker tapped as among his priority bills for the waning days of formal sessions -- a package of municipal government and finance reforms -- inched closer to his desk after clearing the Senate Wednesday evening... Read more
Some of the city-owned parcels speckling Boston have stood vacant for decades, unused and frequently described as “missing teeth” in the face of a neighborhood. New hope for those properties is on hand, the Walsh administration says, through a program... Read more
According to the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, its Student Loan Assistance Unit – a team of insurance and financial services attorneys assembled in 2015 – has so far “helped hundreds of borrowers to date” climb out of default,... Read more
The thousands of active gas leaks in the city of Boston were again on the table at a City Council hearing Tuesday afternoon as experts and residents weighed in on an ordinance proposed by City Councillor Matt O’Malley that seeks to eliminate the leaks.
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Developers and public officials on Monday broke ground on the Ashmont Station-adjacent mixed-used development known as Ashmont TOD2. The former Ashmont Tire property has been rebranded “Treadmark,” a reference to the site’s automotive history.
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