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The Loop— a new, 135-unit, mixed-use building next to Mattapan MBTA station— celebrated its grand opening on Tuesday morning with a ribbon cutting and speeches from dignitaries who had gathered to mark the milestone. “It was only a few years ago this was all blacktop, and now look at it,” said N. Paul TonThat , executive director of Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation,

On a sunny Saturday in mid-April, a white bus pulled into the parking lot of Mattapan’s Jubilee Christian Church off Blue Hill Avenue just north of the Square. “Next stop: Opportunity,” said a sign on the side of the bus. A ramp, flanked by orange cones, beckoned riders to get on, and inside, instead of blue seats, small desks and folding chairs offered an area for people to

While walking along her usual Sunday morning route down Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, Fatima Ali-Salaam stopped to watch as a group of Family Dollar employees unloaded a semi-truck full of boxes. “That’s an entire store on that sidewalk,” she remarked to her companion from the Dorchester Reporter, expressing concern for the lack of adequate parking space many businesses in

Just up the hill from the Adams Street Branch Library and across from Thomas J. Kenney School on Oakton Avenue sits the historic Pierce House, which is treasured as one of the last surviving examples of 17th century architecture in the city of Boston. Its present-day owners – the non-profit Historic New England – open the premises to the public by appointment on select days