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.
Joyce Stanley, Executive Director of Dudley Square Main Street, spoke with the Banner on two decades of promoting and supporting the Roxbury commercial district.
Six new members of the Roslindale Village Main Street Board of Directors attended their first session last week at the annual meeting.
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.
Locally, then-City Councilor Thomas Menino helped usher in an organization that would champion neighborhood improvements and local businesses: Roslindale Village Main Street (RVMS).
The American Planning Association (APA) likes what it sees happening in Fields Corner and has named the Dorchester community one of this year’s 10 greatest neighborhoods in America.
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.