New insurance business opens on Roxbury’s Blue Hill Avenue
January 4, 2017
By: Karen Morales
Tags: Greater Grove Hall Main Streets
Ed Gaskin, Executive Director of Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, expressed a hearty welcome for the new business.
Ed Gaskin, Executive Director of Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, expressed a hearty welcome for the new business.
Six new members of the Roslindale Village Main Street Board of Directors attended their first session last week at the annual meeting.
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.
Locally, then-City Councilor Thomas Menino helped usher in an organization that would champion neighborhood improvements and local businesses: Roslindale Village Main Street (RVMS).
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 Boston Transportation Department has installed four summer “parklets” in Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and Allston-Brighton with another planned for the Audubon Circle neighborhood near Fenway Park.
The grants, which will support initiatives in seven Main Streets Districts.
The Greater Grove Hall Main Streets has hired Ed Gaskin as executive director.