Marty Walsh Calls on Local Artists for Hyde Square Public Art Project
August 16, 2016
By: Catherine Lindsay
Tags: Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street
If you’re an artist who wants to leave their mark on Boston’s urban landscape, now’s your chance.
If you’re an artist who wants to leave their mark on Boston’s urban landscape, now’s your chance.
Several Jamaica Plain volunteers and businesses were chosen as business and volunteer of the year at the 20th annual Boston Main Streets awards ceremony last month.
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.
Bodegas hug the sidewalks, merengue drifts from stores along a lively stretch of Jamaica Plain.
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.
The South End has welcomed several new parks in the few years.
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.
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.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the launch of the POP Allston project, a temporary pop up community space at 89 Brighton Avenue.