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.
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.
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.
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.