West Roxbury Main Streets plans for 2017
February 14, 2017
By: Rishi Sidhu
Tags: West Roxbury Main Streets
Central to the WRMS vision is Imagine West Roxbury, a set of recommendations on how to continue improving the business district.
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.
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.
When he learned that the community space on Brighton Avenue run by POP Allston and managed by Allston Village Main Streets was interested in adding performances, Trip Venturella jumped at the chance.
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.
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.
Allston’s new community space has an open skatepark, a yoga studio, a vintage market, and much more.
Promoting culture, community and creativity, Do617 and Allston Village Main Streets hosted an outdoor public festival Monday to celebrate Allston Christmas.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the launch of the POP Allston project, a temporary pop up community space at 89 Brighton Avenue.
Mayor Marty Walsh took to 89 Brighton Ave. in Allston to announce a new pop up community space aptly known as POP Allston.
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.