Fixing a Highway-Shaped Hole in the Heart of Black Boston
August 14, 2017
By: Erick Trickey
Tags: Dudley Square Main Streets
In Dudley Square, residents are organizing to ensure that the next round of urban renewal benefits them.
In Dudley Square, residents are organizing to ensure that the next round of urban renewal benefits them.
A program of the city of Boston’s Office of Small Business and Office of Women’s Advancement, WE BOS was launched in 2015 to help convene and support women entrepreneurs.
Central to the WRMS vision is Imagine West Roxbury, a set of recommendations on how to continue improving the business district.
West Roxbury Main Streets will host Celebrate Centre on Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate Centre will herald the return of the Sidewalk Sale.
Joyce Stanley, Executive Director of Dudley Square Main Street, spoke with the Banner on two decades of promoting and supporting the Roxbury commercial district.
Executive director of West Roxbury Main Streets, Danielle Joseph discussed one of the nonprofit organization’s main goals: To continue offering its support to residents and businesses in the district.
Monday’s meeting was the first of six scheduled before BRA officials hope to submit a finalized plan to the agency’s board in August.
A Medal of Honor monument, new street signage, bike-share stations, and improvements to parks are just some of the enhancements on the way for Allston-Brighton residents, thanks to Boston College.
Boston College and the city of Boston recently gave neighborhood grants totaling almost $450,000 to Allston-Brighton, providing funding for future enhancement projects.
When Longmeadow native Patrick Roche launched Think Tank Coworking in Portland, Maine, five years ago, it was an experiment.
The initiative’s goal is to measure a city’s friendliness to elders along several criteria, including transportation, housing, social participation, civic participation, and communication.
More than 200 people gathered at the Harry Parker Boathouse Friday night for Brighton Main Streets’ annual gala.