After a long, confusing construction period over the winter, the redesign of Beacon Street in the Back Bay is finally completed, but many residents are not happy with the result. Over the course of just a few months, Grant Schaumburg…
Month: June 2018
Chester Square Looks to Re-Unify The Evens and Odds with Friends Group
There was East and West Germany. There was the North and South in the United States. And now there’s Chester Square – the latest reunification effort that looks to bring back together the even and odd sides of a beautiful,…
A Sweet Match: A Great Product, Critical Research Combine for South End Bee Company
As it turns out, bees happen to be city people. That’s the revelation that South End resident Noah Wilson-Rich stumbled upon while installing a bee hive in the backyard of his landlord’s property on West Concord Street nine years ago.…
Field of Flags on the Common Celebrates Ninth Year, Thousands Affected Far and Wide
In two hours, 400 volunteers transformed a patch of grass on the Boston Common into a moving Memorial Day tribute. After nine years, the field of American flags on the Common never gets old, and that’s exactly the point as…
BBAC Approves Removal of Magnolia Tree on Comm Ave
The Back Bay Architectural Commission voted to approve the removal of a Magnolia tree and re-landscape the area at 393 Commonwealth Ave., at a hearing on Wednesday, May 9. The Dexter House Condo Association has tried for several years to…
Walsh’s Coffee Hour Comes to Commonwealth Ave Mall
More than 100 neighbors turned out to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Thursday morning, May 24, for the return of Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Neighborhood Coffee Hour. Now in its 19th year, these events take place each spring and summer at…
Now + There Has Big Plans for the Upcoming Year
This year, Now + There, a non-profit that creates temporary public art projects, introduced its 2018 theme, Common Home. Over the next six months, two female artists and seven Boston artists completing the Now + There Public Art Accelerator will…
Back Bay Resident Receives Award for Exceptional Service to the Nonprofit Sector
Empower Success Corps (ESC), an organization dedicated to helping nonprofits in New England succeed, hosted its annual “Celebration of Service” awards at The Landmark Center in Boston on Thursday, May 10. Marion Nierintz, a resident of Boston’s Back Bay, was…
New Upgrades are Coming to 11 Isabella Street in Bay Village
Located next to an abandoned building and surface parking lot in the Bay Village, another building is set to get some renovations along Isabella Street. Two brothers, Benjamin and Daniel Moll of Arx Urban architects and active members in the…
Boston Medical to Move Newton Pavilion Offices to Crosstown
The Crosstown Center on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street in the South End will lease 23,400 square-feet of space to Boston Medical Center to accommodate the evacuation of the Newton Pavilion to make way for the Shattuck…