Beth Odonnell News Today

For years, a conservation-focused legal foundation and a nonprofit housing financier have partnered with local governments, investors, researchers and developers to lay the foundation for healthy neighborhoods.

'Today Show' host Hoda Kotb was absent from the NBC morning show in February and March 2023. One of the reasons was due to "a family health matter."

Ironically, the biggest issue that came up in the proposal to develop the Hamlet Street municipal parking lot in Uphams Corner was, yes, parking. The development team of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation and Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) submitted the only proposal for the city-owned property, unveiling a plan at a June 1 meeting that would include 69

The rounded, iconic brick façade of the Pierce Building says “Uphams Corner” like no other structure, but the 19th Century gem also has been screaming to be restored to its glory days for decades. That restoration is now rounding the homestretch toward an October finish, and its owners couldn’t be happier. The Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has a lot of

In Boston, the CommonWealth Kitchen has cooked up a successful model of community economic development by incubating businesses in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Crucially, financial profit was not the main goal but the real rewards might be invaluable.

When the Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at the Strand Theatre opened last October, neighbors and business owners in Uphams Corner noticed something a bit new – lots of visitors. The Van Gogh display is scheduled to close this week after a five-month run, and though it’s too early to get the raw numbers on ticket sales and revenues, the eyes don’t lie. The exhibit has attracted

Jan. 27. 2022 When the city issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) last fall looking for bidders on a three-part package focused on a critical piece of the Uphams Corner puzzle – operating the Strand Theatre, building a branch library adjacent to it, and adding affordable housing to the mix above the library – the move was hailed as a milestone in a process that has been in the

Developers set sights on August The Indigo Block, a linchpin re-development project along the Fairmount Line in Uphams Corner, will be completed this summer, according to the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, which has been leading the effort to revitalize the site for much of the last decade. Construction on the estimated $50 million project along East Cottage Street began in earnest in December 2019, but was interrupted by the Covid-19 construction moratorium. Work resumed l...