The "Stash's" on the awnings of Stash's Pizza on Belgrade Avenue today are covered with the logo of Rock City Pizza, an Allston pizzeria and sub shop that also has an outlet in Randolph. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/11/23 - 10:27 pm
Proposed layout of replacement bridge by MassDOT.
MassDOT officials tonight showed off preliminary plans for the replacement for the West Roxbury Parkway bridge over the train tracks between Holy Name Rotary and Belgrade Avenue - plans that include a new center turning lane and a bicycle lane in either direction, even though the bike lanes will initially be of little use since the parkway doesn't currently have any marked bike lanes. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/22 - 3:37 pm
Westie bridge is crumbling down, crumbling down, crumbling down, my fair lady.
MassDOT plans to replace the bridge that carries West Roxbury Parkway between the Holy Name rotary and Belgrade Avenue over the Needham Line train track sometime in 2024, following a July inspection that found it in "poor" condition. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/22 - 3:30 pm
The Boston Licensing Board voted unanimously today to allow Lorenzo Mercado to sell a full range of alcohol products at his Punta Cana store on Belgrade Avenue at Walworth Street in Roslindale - and to change its name from Punta Cana Beer & Wine Market to Punta Cana Market. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/22 - 4:55 pm
Bolivian dancers on Belgrade Avenue. See it larger.
In addition to these Bolivian dancers, also dancing down Belgrade and up Centre and South: The Morenada-Diablada New England dancers: Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/22 - 2:44 pm
Two people gaze in wonder from other side of Belgrade in rendering by Arrowstreet.
The Dedham developer that once would have built a charter school at the old Clay car dealership and garage on Belgrade Avenue yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for a five-story residential building with 124 units and 86 parking spaces - and green space on what is now a parking lot. Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/22 - 2:56 pm
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
A developer's proposal to replace the old Folsom Funeral Home at 59-63 Belgrade Ave. with a four-story, 31-unit apartment building won a go-ahead today from the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved it 6-1. Read more.
By adamg - 8/9/22 - 11:18 am
Chase shows how it will fill the ATM gap near Holy Name (note: Rockland ATM is now on other side of street).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Chase Bank to add a drive-up ATM to the new bank branch it's building where the BP gas station used to be on Centre Street at Belgrade Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/22 - 2:52 pm
The Dedham developer that once would have built a charter school at the old Clay car dealership on Belgrade Avenue told the BPDA this week it now plans to build a far larger five-story residential building on the site. Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/22 - 6:49 pm
Shortly after 5 p.m, gunfire erupted on Belgrade Avenue near Aldrich Street in Roslindale. At least one house hit by a bullet - and the driver of a car with its front windshield blasted with bullet holes fled the scene towards West Roxbury Parkway. Read more.
By adamg - 5/13/22 - 11:11 am
A vocabulary enriched citizen files a 311 complaint about some anti-Roe scrawling atop Roslindale Square's solar-powered Big Belly trash receptacle on Belgrade Avenue just before Robert and Corinth streets: Read more.
By adamg - 4/15/22 - 10:34 pm
Pahked on Belgrade Avenue late this afternoon a few blocks away from Rozzie Squayuh.
By adamg - 3/5/22 - 11:03 am
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
A developer has proposed replacing the Folsom Funeral Home, 59-63 Belgrade Ave. in Roslindale, with a four-story, 31-unit apartment building. Read more.
By adamg - 11/28/21 - 10:53 pm
Boston Police report arresting two men they tagged up a car whose driver was waiting for the light at Washington and Walworth streets around 7 a.m. today. Read more.
By adamg - 4/19/21 - 8:23 pm
Roxbury Prep told supporters today it's given up on plans to build a new high school on Belgrade Avenue at the Roslindale/West Roxbury line, four years after it first proposed the idea, only to be confronted by both angry residents and a BPDA bureaucracy that kept the plans bottled up far longer than it took to get a 55-story skyscraper downtown approved. Read more.
In Roslindale, Brazilian-focused convenience store could become Dominican-focused beer and wine shop
By adamg - 2/18/21 - 11:51 am
The owner of Silva's Brazilian Market on Belgrade Avenue at Walworth Street wants to sell the shop and its beer and wine license to Lorenzo Mercado, who is proposing to re-open it as the Punta Cana Beer & Wine Market, with a closing time of 11 p.m.
The proposed license transfer goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday, in hearings that begin at 1 p.m.
By adamg - 12/14/20 - 7:40 am
CommonWealth breaks the news, which comes after the BPDA postponed a public meeting on the proposal - nearly two years after the school first filed plans. The school says it might still push for the Roslindale site on the Roslindale/West Roxbury line if it can't find another location elsewhere.
By adamg - 12/5/20 - 12:17 pm
Nearly two years after Roxbury Prep filed plans to replace the old Clay Chevrolet place on Belgrade Avenue with a new high school, the BPDA had scheduled a public meeting on the proposal. But BPDA planners sent out word Friday that the meeting, scheduled for this Tuesday, has been called off. Read more.
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