The state has issued a Request for Information (RFI) this week regarding the Shattuck Hospital site in Jamaica Plain – a document that will look to select participants to create a new public health use on the site when the…
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Chase Bank Retail Branch Experiment Expands to the South End
Chase Bank’s new venture into retail banking will hit the South End before the end of the year, one of the first branches to hit Boston neighborhoods after an aggressive goal to locate 60 branches throughout New England. Alex Ong,…
South End, Back Bay Rake in Capital Projects in Latest Four-Year Plan
From new play equipment at the Clarendon Street Playground in the Back Bay to design work for a new fire station in the South End, the downtown neighborhoods raked in several new projects within the 2020-2024 Capital Budget, which was…
Superintendent Search Committee Recommends Three – One with Local Ties
Three candidates have been forwarded to the Boston School Committee for consideration as the next superintendent of schools – including one candidate who attended Boston Public Schools and has strong ties to the South End as current headmaster at Cathedral…
City’s Engineers Confident Long Island Piers are Sound, Reusable
Key will now be to get peace, permit from Quincy ConCom When it comes to the old piers for the Long Island Bridge, engineers said last week they are solid as can be even after 75 years. However, when it…
Eight Streets Looks at Ideas to Manage Trash
The Eight Streets Neighborhood Association is considering several possible solutions to managing their trash before the summer months hit and the rat population begins to feast once more on rubbish. The options include night pick-up, new collapsible trash barrels, more…
USES Picks South End Developer as Preferred Buyer for Tubman House
The United South End Settlements (USES) has chosen South End developer New Boston Ventures, under Southenders David Goldman and Dennis Kanin, as the preferred buyer for the Harriet Tubman House building at 566 Columbus Ave. USES Executive Director Maicharia Weir…
Cathedral of the Holy Cross Shines Bright After Two-year Renovation
New Worship Space to Debut Palm Sunday If there were ever an appropriate phrase for the massive renovation of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, it would be, ‘Let there be light.’ That scripturally appropriate phrase…
Foodie’s Building Sells to Development Team for $10 Million
An out-of-town residential development team has purchased the building housing Foodie’s Market from M. Hernandez-Santibanez for $10 million, but the owner of Foodie’s said he doesn’t plan on going anywhere in the near term. Developers John Lubitz, of Cohasset; Mark…
Trash Contract Is up for Review, City Said to Be Mulling a Change
The City of Boston’s Public Works Department (PWD) is in the midst of re-evaluating a new five-year trash pickup contract – set to make a decision between two major contractors in the next week or so. The City said right…