City May Kill “Super” CAC
The Fenway CAC is a board of community members originally gathered to review the 109 Brookline Avenue life sciences development.

City Declares Closing Dartmouth St a Success
The experiment also gave the city a chance to weigh public opinion and gather traffic data. While officials are claiming success, residents of the surrounding area have assailed the study as biased and misguided..

Esplanade Needs Votes To Get On 10 Best List
Out of 20 cities chosen by a panel of USA Today.

Richest Neighborhoods Most Impacted by Rent Stabilization
Wu announced plans to cap annual rent increases at 10 percent during Wednesday’s State of the City speech. Rental units built after 2008 or in triple deckers would be exempt..

Allowable Building Heights May Triple
City planners have sparked furious debate over the revitalized PLAN: Downtown project, whose latest iteration would send building heights soaring across much of the Downtown..

MGH Gathers Neighbors To Enhance Dialogue
Neighbors of Mass General Hospital gathered for a first in-person community meeting since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. The meeting brought together neighbors and organizations from the West End and Beacon Hill..

Hill Residents Were Civil Rights Activists
“Middleton was a striver. [I mention] Walker and Stewart because they were so brash, especially Walker,” said Kathryn Woods, a tour guide for the Freedom Trail Foundation. “I always admire people who get their toes stepped on and say, ‘Get the hell off my foot!’”.

Neighbors Are Concerned About Longwood Shadows
Longwood Place is a 1.7 million square foot development on Brookline Avenue, intended as a major element of the new campus Simmons University is moving into two streets away. Far from just an academic center, the three-part plan would include affordable housing, retail, restaurants and public community spaces.

BTD Plans to Slow Vehicles
According to Fong, each speed hump will be 150 to 250 feet apart to maintain the 20-mph speed and will not impact parking, snow clearance, and drainage. The planning for the location of the speed humps will factor in the emergency response by law enforcement and emergency medical services.

Seniors Look Back At the South End
“We talk about everything, from politics to art to local happenings. Before COVID we would meet in person, but since then, it is more of a virtual thing,” said Paul Duffy, 84, a resident born and brought up in the neighborhood who also contributed to the book.

A Black College Is Proposed for Seaport
The BGI’s proposal includes three mixed-use commercial buildings. They will have office and community space, a child care center, parking spaces for neighboring hotels and one building dedicated to scientific research and development..