Marty Walsh Calls on Local Artists for Hyde Square Public Art Project
August 16, 2016
By: Catherine Lindsay
Tags: Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street
If you’re an artist who wants to leave their mark on Boston’s urban landscape, now’s your chance.
If you’re an artist who wants to leave their mark on Boston’s urban landscape, now’s your chance.
Several Jamaica Plain volunteers and businesses were chosen as business and volunteer of the year at the 20th annual Boston Main Streets awards ceremony last month.
Bodegas hug the sidewalks, merengue drifts from stores along a lively stretch of Jamaica Plain.
Among the plans Boston Mayor Marty Walsh laid out at his second State of the City address was a push for the construction and expansion of parks using six acres of land across the city.
The South End has welcomed several new parks in the few years.
Over the last 20 years, more than seven acres of urban renewal parcels on Washington Street were rebuilt from the demolition of vacant buildings of the late 1970s.
The state’s first-ever class in business English for speakers of other languages, a collaboration between Egleston Square Main Street and Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street, graduated six small business
The grants, which will support initiatives in seven Main Streets Districts.