By Seth Daniel In what surprised many in the New York Street area of the South End, the CIM Group purchased the 1000 Washington St. building and the 321 Harrison Ave. garage – which is fully permitted for a new office building – from Nordblom for $114.2 million on Monday. The move by CIM...
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By Dan Murphy At a special meeting of the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay (NABB) Licensing and Building Use Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 19, the owner of 29 Commonwealth Ave. sought to assuage neighbors’ concerns regarding the potential traffic, delivery and noise impacts from changing its use from an office building to a...
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By Beth Treffeisen A packed room filed into the lobby of the Harriet Tubman House, located at 566 Columbus Ave., to listen and ask questions on how the United South End Settlements (USES) will be reorganizing to better serve the community in the future. Held on Tuesday, Sept. 19, the meeting outlined the initial...
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By Seth Daniel Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuesday that her office has expanded an ongoing investigation into the marketing and sale of opioids to include multiple manufacturers of branded painkillers and three major drug distributors, but her entrance into the suit came a little too late for some in the neighborhood. As part...
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By Seth Daniel There is no shortage of places to find oysters in the South End these days, but few might have thought one of the most prolific oyster spots is between five and 10 feet underground. No one except a few choice historians and a good many neighbors on Warren Avenue who have...
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By Seth Daniel With less than a week before the much-anticipated Sept. 26 Preliminary Election, debates – or no debates – have taken center stage in the four-person mayoral contest. At issue this week is a debate that was to occur on Sept. 12 between Mayor Martin Walsh and Challenger Tito Jackson at UMass...
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By Seth Daniel When Urban Renewal first came to the South End, it was the 1960s and plans had begun to form and agreements had been made to redevelop the aging neighborhood. Many of the things one sees today are a product of Urban Renewal – things like the Boston Center for the Arts,...
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Candidate Mike Kelley held a canvass kickoff Sunday, Sept. 10, in the South End’s Villa Victoria neighborhood, rallying supporters from every neighborhood in District 2. Joining Kelley were Attorney General Maura Healey as well as several members of SEIU Local 888. Kelley’s campaign had more than 50 volunteers knocking on doors and speaking with...
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With less than one week before the District 2 City Council Preliminary Election, Ed Flynn hosted packed campaign events in the South End, Chinatown, and Beacon Hill. In recent weeks, Flynn earned key endorsements from local elected officials and community-based organizations. Flynn said, “Since March, we have been reaching out to voters from every...
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Fourth grade teacher Luis Diaz (back) happily welcomed his new students back for a fall term of school at the Hurley K-8 School in the South End on Thursday, Sept. 7. Students from across the Boston Public Schools, as well as many students in private schools, returned for a fresh year of schooling this...
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