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.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Office of Economic Development today launched Boston's Small Business Center in Mattapan, designed to serve as a one-stop neighborhood resource for small businesses.
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.
Joyce Stanley, Executive Director of Dudley Square Main Street, spoke with the Banner on two decades of promoting and supporting the Roxbury commercial 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.
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.
When Longmeadow native Patrick Roche launched Think Tank Coworking in Portland, Maine, five years ago, it was an experiment.
More than 200 people gathered at the Harry Parker Boathouse Friday night for Brighton Main Streets’ annual gala.
Neighbors and city officials will team up this weekend and fan out across the neighborhood in the second of three Boston Shines weekends aimed at tidying the city after a particularly dingy winter.
Twelve MIT graduate students presented initial results of their three month study of the Brighton Main Streets district at the Presentation School Community Center in Oak Square.