BPDA Has “Ghosts” Doing Its Outreach
As Mayor Michelle Wu is promoting her shift of the Boston Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) to City Hall as a way to bring in community input, neighborhood groups are skeptical, pointing to how the BPDA already has "Community Engagement Managers" (CEM) that many organizations have rarely seen or never met.

Landmarks Is in Chaos
That letter accused Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration of playing fast and loose with the law in six specific cases, including the renovation of White Stadium, the proposed landmark designation of City Hall and the mysterious removal of Hotel Buckminster from its original voting date.

Celebrating Bronze
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More AirBNBs May Be Coming
An apartment building in the Back Bay seems slated for sale to a short-term rental company, just the latest example of housing stock degradation as the city struggles to enforce its prescribed limits..

Loving Our Home
Last Friday, members of the Downtown Business Improvement District were out in force painting and sprucing up Boston’s central business area..

Sewer Pipes Are Being Replaced
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC), which manages the city’s underground pipes, contracted the project to Albanese D&S, a Dracut-based contractor specializing in utilities, excavation and road construction, according to the company’s website.

Hurley’s Future May Could Be in Purgatory
Nearly two years after splashy rollout, Leggat McCall has yet to submit its $1 billion proposal to transform the Hurley to Boston City Hall for review, the first step for any major project..

Thousands of Winners
There is an old saying: anyone who starts and finishes a marathon is a winner. In Boston’s case, there were over 30,00 winners..

Before There Was A Fenway Park
The Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds was one of the most popular and well-attended baseball fields in Boston in the early twentieth century. The large open-air field was on Huntington Avenue, just west of Massachusetts Avenue and opposite the Boston Opera House.

Really Caring
Marathoner Nehal Munshi raised $2,300 for the food program at Fenway Cares, an alliance of six neighborhood nonprofits..

Article 80 Process To Start Outreach
Anthony D’Isidoro, president of the Allston Civic Association and the sole representative of civic groups on the nine-member steering committee, said the two consulting firms selected in June are expected to complete their public outreach and give their conclusions in the committee’s April meeting.

No Interim Report On Road Redesign
The start of the study was delayed months by material shortages and supply chain issues, finally beginning in December instead of the original completion date in late September. That has in turn pushed the end date of the half-year study to June 2024..