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.
A long-vacant block in East Boston’s Maverick Square that most recently housed a funeral home could soon be reincarnated into a restaurant, retail and fitness complex.
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.
Mayor Martin Walsh joined with the Department of Neighborhood Development to honor Boston Main Streets volunteers and businesses during the 20th Annual Boston Main Streets Awards.
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 initiative’s goal is to measure a city’s friendliness to elders along several criteria, including transportation, housing, social participation, civic participation, and communication.
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 grants, which will support initiatives in seven Main Streets Districts.
Spanish-language television is on, barely audible above the blare of blow dryers and the din of women animatedly talking, a typical afternoon at Marlen Beauty Salon in East Boston