Rendering by Merge Architects.
A developer has filed plans for a six-story, 59-unit apartment building at 101-109 Boston St., right next door to the prominent Fortress self-storage building with the giant inflatable lock off I-93 near South Bay Mall. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a local developer's plans for a 90-unit apartment building at 115-121 Boston St. in Dorchester. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a license that will let DJ's Market, 120 Boston St. in Dorchester's Polish Triangle, add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
A developer has proposed replacing a vintage-furniture store at 115 Boston St. in Dorchester with a two-building, six-story complex with 90 "compact" apartments. Read more.
Rendering by Context.
A pair of developers have proposed a four-story, 18-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot that stretches between Dorchester Avenue and Boston Street in the Polish Triangle, just south of Andrew Square. Read more.
Rendering of proposed billboard, which board noped out on.
For the second time in a year, the Zoning Board of Appeal has rejected a proposal by a billboard company and the Polish American Citizens Club to erect a digital billboard on club property to beam ads at Expressway drivers - and to help financially support the non-profit club. Read more.
A developer signaled yesterday he hopes to build a five-story building with 90 tiny apartments at 115-121 Boston St., behind the ScrubaDub and near where a 403-unit complex won approval in 2021. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today agreed to reconsider its decision in May to reject a plan by the Polish-American Club on Boston Street to erect a new billboard on a pole next to I-93, not because the club has since sued the board but because its zoning lawyer has since filed detailed renderings of what the billboard would look like, information the board didn't have in May. Read more.
The Polish-American Club on Boston Street and a Norwell billboard company yesterday sued the Zoning Board of Appeal over its rejection of a plan to build an electronic billboard aimed at motorists on the neighboring Southeast Expressway. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal to couple the erection of a digital billboard in the backyard of the Polish-American Citizens Club on Boston Street, overlooking the Expressway, with the elimination of three existing billboards elsewhere in Dorchester. Read more.
Surveillance photo via BPD
Boston Police have released photos of the man they say vandalized the flagpole at the Polish American Club, 82 Boston St. in Dorchester and fled with the American flag that had been flying on it, around 4:10 p.m. on Saturday.
Boston Police report Andronique Dos Santos, 23, of Dorchester, was shot to death at the Holiday Inn Express, 69 Boston St. in Dorchester, around 12:20 p.m. on July 22.
Boston Police report arresting two teens, both about 14, after an attack and robbery at Boston and Howell streets in Dorchester around 11 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 143 Boston St. around 2:40 p.m. for a fire - which they knocked down about ten minutes later.
Boston Police are thanking bystanders who helped them save the lives of two men yesterday - one of whom was getting ready to throw himself in front of a Needham Line train in Roslindale, the other of whom was trying to throw himself from an overpass onto the Expressway in Dorchester. Read more.
Developer Charles Batchelder of Waltham wants to replace an old industrial building on Boston Street and a garage on Enterprise St. with a five-story residential building with commercial space on the ground floor - and to extend a road that now runs through the new South Bay mall to Boston Street. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was attacked and held up at gunpoint "by a group of males and a female," at Boston and Howell streets around 9:20 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
Boston Police credit EMTs for detaining one of two suspects in an early morning break in at a Boston Street convenience store. Read more.
A three-alarm fire early this morning caused an estimated $1.25 million in damage to two three-deckers on Boston Street and sent one firefighter to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
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