Blue Hill Corridor
The owner of the building that now houses the Fernandez IV Liquors, a pizza place and a laundromat on Hancock Street at Trull Street has proposed expanding the building to add three residential floors - with the liquor store and laundromat staying during... Read more
After months of community meetings and conversations about the Blue Hill Avenue corridor and the redesign of Mattapan Square, final decisions by the Wu administration on what’s next are expected by the end of the year.
At stake are key concept designs for... Read more
Healey administration picks Boston Medical Center coalition for recovery campus at Shattuck Hospital
Officials with Gov. Healey’s administration last week announced that a coalition led by Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been awarded provisional designation to develop a recovery campus on the existing 13-acre Shattuck Hospital site on Morton Street at... Read more
Federal agents on Thursday arrested the owner of Stash's Pizza, 612 Blue Hill Ave., on a charge of forced labor, for preying on what he allegedly called "f---ing immigrants," whom he'd hire and then allegedly beat, scream at, and force to work up to 80... Read more
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Wednesday approved plans by Citizens Bank to convert a long-closed Kentucky Fried Chicken across from the B-3 police station on Blue Hill Avenue into a branch that will feature a drive-up ATM and a night-deposit door - right... Read more
With planning already underway for an overhaul of Blue Hill Avenue – including the addition of a center-lane busway along on the corridor from Grove Hall to Mattapan Square – most of the candidates for the new Second Suffolk Senate seat are offering... Read more
The Open Streets Boston pilot program came to Blue Hill Avenue last Saturday as the city closed off 1.2 miles of the roadway from Dudley Street west to Grove Hall. The morning and early-afternoon event brought out hundreds of residents who used the... Read more
Weekly road closings that started May 27 in Dorchester and Mattapan around Franklin Park and Franklin Field have riled some members of the community, who say such closures are new and unexpected. But other residents say the closings have been in place for... Read more
There has been a lot of missing teeth in the development of buildings along Blue Hill Avenue for nearly two generations, but there is hope that those gaps will be filled in as the first 8 of 30 city-owned vacant lots along the Ave. were designated for... Read more
Former Boston Police Commissioner endorses Annissa Essaibi George for Mayor
By Mia McCarthy, Correspondent
Former Boston Police Commissioner William Gross endorsed at-Large City Councillor Annissa Essaibi George for Mayor during an event in Mattapan on... Read more
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