The Boston Licensing Board agreed today to let the family of convicted pizza guy Stavros Papantoniadis keep food-serving licenses for his Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale now that they've written him out of the businesses and said they are planning to sell off both locations to other operators. Read more.
Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Home Market, 165 Belgrade Ave. in Roslindale, expand its current beer and wine license to include all alcoholic beverages, after hearing from the store's new owner that she would focus on Greek spirits, rather than simply trying to compete with the more common liquor already for sale at Punta Cana right across the street. Read more.
A bedeviled resident filed a 311 complaint about the infernal racket outside the Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue near Lord's and Lady's Way in West Roxbury: Read more.
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint, along with the day's moodiest photo, about the lack of lights in the pedestrian tunnel under the Needham Line tracks between Belgrade Avenue and Fallon Field in Roslindale.
The two outages that left part of Roslindale without lights or air conditioning yesterday were caused by "an underground cable fault" underneath Belgrade Avenue, an Eversource spokesperson said today. Read more.
A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.
The Bellevue Hill Improvement Association in West Roxbury has dropped its lawsuit against a proposed five-story, 124-unit apartment building on the old Clay Chevrolet site on the Roslindale/West Roxbury line. Read more.
A group of Roslindale residents who sued to block a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway - several of whom lived in a condo building next door - dropped their suit after a judge said they didn't have much of a case, but could continue if they posted a $200,000 bond to compensate the developer for delay-related costs should they lose. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved plans by Exodus Bagels to add sit-down seating to its bagel bakery at 2 McCraw St. off Belgrade Avenue. Read more.
A Land Court judge has given some neighbors of a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway a deadline of March 5 to decide whether their lawsuit is worth posting a $200,000 bond to continue - money they would forfeit to the developer should they lose. Read more.
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
A Dedham developer has filed plans with the BPDA to raze a medical office and a house to put up 15 condos at 55-57 Belgrade Ave., between St. Nectarios Church and a 31-unit apartment building now under construction where the Folsom Funeral Home used to be. Read more.
Via Keep Roslindale Quirky comes news that Exodus Bagels hopes to convert part of its bagelry at 2 McCraw St. in Roslindale into a sit-down restaurant. Read more.
Seven Roslindale residents today sued the Zoning Board of Appeal and a Dedham developer to block an apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway that they say would just be far too large for their neighborhood. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer captured the aftermath of a cab crashing into the front porch of a house on Walworth Street at Belgrade Avenue this morning.
Even as the Stash's on Belgrade Avenue in Roslindale re-opened this week, its owner remains behind bars as he awaits trial on charges he beat, abused and underpaid the undocumented immigrants federal prosecutors say he preferred to hire at his pizza places. Read more.
Rendering by Arrowstreet.
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week unanimously approved plans for a 124-unit apartment at the old Clay Chevrolet site at 361 Belgrade Ave. at West Roxbury Parkway in Roslindale. Read more.
Firefighters going in. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded at 12:45 a.m. to the triple decker at 293 Belgrade Ave. for what started as a basement fire that spread to the first floor. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday re-approved plans for construction of an 18-unit apartment building on a vacant triangle where a Texaco station used to sit at the intersection of Belgrade Avenue and Beech Street in West Roxbury. Read more.
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