The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) board during its March 17 meeting approved the $12 million mixed-use development project at 35 S. Huntington Ave. The BRA in the early 2000s approved a different development team’s plan for the site: a five-story,…
Author: Peter Shanley
Senior Life: JP@Home expanding to Hill residents
JP@Home, a grassroots membership group with the mission of keeping aging residents at home as long as possible, is opening membership to residents outside of Jamaica Plain to include the contiguous neighborhoods of Mission Hill, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Brookline, Hyde…
Senior Life: Former nursing home to become residential development
The slide of S. Huntington Avenue from an institutional lane to that of a residential area continued on March 17, as the Boston Redevelopment Authority board approved the $62 million renovation and expansion project at the former Goddard House nursing…
MBTA board approves fare hikes
The MBTA fiscal and management control board on March 7 approved system-wide fare hikes that amount to an average 9.3 percent increase that will go into effect July 1, according to a press release. The board vote means: Bus Pass…
Boston votes for Clinton, Trump in primary election
Boston voters picked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and real estate mogul Donald Trump (Republican) in their parties’ respective presidential primary in Massachusetts on March 1, according to unofficial City results. Both Trump and Clinton were projected to…
BRA board approves S. Huntington Ave. guidelines
The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) board voted during its monthly meeting on Feb. 11 to approve the S. Huntington Avenue guidelines, according to BRA spokesperson Nick Martin. Martin said that the guidelines will next go before the Zoning Commission on…
NU files plan for student housing development
Northeastern University (NU) has filed a project notification form (PNF) for a 207-unit student housing development at 10 Burke St. that will have 800 beds, according to documents filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). A community meeting will be…
Parties await Art Park lawsuit decision
The lawsuit over the proposed Art Park development is in the hands of a Boston Housing Court judge, according to John Feuerbach of the City’s Department of Neighborhood Development and Kathryn Brookins, who filed the lawsuit with her husband Oscar…
Mixed-use dev. planned for 35 S. Huntington Ave.
A developer, Doug George of Dorchester, has filed plans for a 45,500-square-foot, mixed-use development at 35 S. Huntington Ave., according to documents filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). The BRA will hold a community meeting on the project at…
Mission Hill man fatally shot
A Mission Hill man was fatally shot on Jan. 13, according to bpdnews.com. Boston Police Department (BPD) officers responded to a call for an unknown medical situation at 55 Fenwood Road around 7:39 p.m. on Jan. 13. They found an…