In the early 1970s, large chunks of the Columbia Point peninsula remained a barren moonscape. Even as UMass Boston’s campus started to carve out its own fortress-like-foothold, the former landfill was seen as a decrepit no man’s land. The John F. Kennedy Library, then still on the drawing boards, was bound for the banks of the Charles River on the Harvard University campus,
Activists who object to the proposed Dorchester Bay City project on Columbia Point delivered a petition to Mayor Michelle Wu’s office on Tuesday that asks for a six-month slowdown in the development’s review. The online petition, circulated by the group Dorchester Not For Sale (DN4S), was signed by more than 700 people, the organization said on Tuesday. The Bay City
UMass Boston (UMB) already has a half century of history as a Dorchester institution, built starting in 1972 on Boston’s former garbage landfill, and opened to students in January 1974. This was a mostly forgotten, depreciated part of Boston, literally “on the other side of the Old Colony Line tracks,” site to a troubled, neglected BHA project, Columbia Point Houses, and
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Mayor Michelle Wu has chosen James Arthur Jemison II, a former Dorchester resident with extensive experience in Massachusetts, to be Boston’s inaugural Chief of Planning. Along with responsibilities for leading city-wide, inter-department land use planning efforts, Jemison is expected to helm the Boston Planning and Development Agency as its new director, a role expected to