Wu Silent on $s For Long Island
While it’s now all but certain the bridge to Long Island will get the permits it needs for reconstruction to begin, the mayor’s office is refusing to say how much it will cost to get the island’s dozen buildings itself functional again or how it will find space in the city budget.

Condo Sells for $30,000,000
Despite fears of the recently passed “Millionaire’s Tax”, high mortgage rates and global instability, the luxury housing market may be on a record setting pace, according to Kevin Ahearn of Douglass Elliman Real Estate who has tracked the city’s housing market for decades.

Runway Closure Not Bringing More Noise
Logan International Airport has closed one of its primary runways for maintenance, but residents in the downtown neighborhoodds are yet to report much disruption from the increase in late-night and early morning flights..

Hitting the Trifecta
Fenway gardeners took win, place and show in the Community Garden category at this year’s Mayor’s Garden Contest Awards, one of the few times in history that one neighborhood has swept a category..

Downtown Rezoning Is Not Finding Censuses
PLAN: Downtown published the first completed draft of its recommendations on August 18, suggesting sweeping changes to zoning Downtown. The proposal would see heights skyrocket in many areas but would simplify the zoning process and allow new types of businesses to take root.

City Grant May Yield New Store
Mayor Michelle Wu announced on July 26 that the SPACE grant was created after COVID-19 and the pandemic to give local entrepreneurs the resources and support they need to thrive, revitalize downtown, increase foot traffic in major commercial districts and close the racial wealth gap.

The Red/Blue Connector Almost Ready for Debate
State transit officials published further details of the proposed blueprints on August 9, looking forward toward environmental review. The current design sits at roughly a third complete, with $40 million allocated by the state legislature to conduct outreach and finish the blueprints.

Crime Wave Hits Charles Street
The thieves stole around $600 in cash, the cash register itself, a box of rings and some jewelry. They also apparently injured themselves in the process, spilling blood “everywhere.

THE NEXT PEDRO
10-year-old Von Jacobs Nesselrodt threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park on August 12 commemorating his family’s five generations of Red Sox fandom. The team immediately signed the lefty to a professional contract..

CELEBRATING JADE
Tim Horn and Marie Fakuda celebrated their 35th (or jade) wedding anniversary last weekend in a not quite usual way: they went camping..

GARDEN PERENNIAL
The Fenway Victory Garden held its annual Open Gardens Event last Sunday. The 7.5 acres with 500 garden plots were open for the public to tour..

Stakeholders Are Livid With Wu’s Shelter Plan
City officials received an immediate surge of public resistance to a proposal to locate a fourth shelter in the South End, regardless of assurances of nonpermanence that stakeholders view with suspicion at best..

“Recover Boston” Needs T Approval
Announced in an August 18 event, the proposed Recover Boston campus would use Widett Circle, recently acquired by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), to operate 150 small pallet homes there with a budget of around $9 million annually.

Seaport to Get An EMS Facility
A two-bay ambulance station will be located in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park (RLFMP) adjacent to Pier 10 on Dry Dock Avenue. Last March the Boston Planning and Development Agency approved the space for a future EMS station to serve the South Boston Waterfront.

JUDY AND PETER
In 1960 Anthony Athanas bought land south of the Fort Point Channel, across that industrial waterway from downtown Boston, and created a restaurant that was to become part of the city fabric, with people of all walks of life dining in its elegantly appointed restaurant.