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City planning officials last week signed off on a 3.6-acre development that will add three buildings to the tip of Dorchester’s Port Norfolk peninsula, a once busy industrial and commercial site that is now home to a distillery and a restaurant. The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved the project, known as Neponset Wharf or 24 Ericsson, last
To the Editor: I am writing this letter to encourage Dorchester residents to strongly oppose the request by Bay Colony Associates, Boston Bowl, for two digital billboards on a winged monopole at 820 Morrissey Blvd. The location is next to Interstate 93, directly across from the Neponset River Area of Critical Environmental Concern and highly visible from Tenean Beach, Victory Road Park, Squantum Point Park, the Neponset Greenway, the Dorchester Harborwalk, and large parts of Port Norfolk and Neponset. I urge my fellow Dorchester residents to oppose it as well. Digital billboards are ugly, ...
By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent April 7, 2021 Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent One view of what a new building at 24 Ericsson St. site may look like as shown during a BPDA-sponsored public meeting held online last week. Image courtesy RODE Architects Nearly four years after a development team first submitted a letter of intent to construct a complex of buildings on the Port Norfolk waterfront, they may finally be moving ahead with community approval. On March 30, the BPDA hosted a public meeting on a new and updated proposal for the 24 Ericsson Street site. Over an hour-long...
One year later: The last photos you took on your phone before COVID changed everything Steve Annear © From top left: @shaleentitle, @sarahmattero, @ArtieB, @EAlmquist @davidmanzo, @captivedriver Twitter users shared photos they took in the days before a state of emergency was declared last year. One year ago today, it became alarmingly clear that life as we knew it was about to change drastically. On March 10, 2020, as the number of coronavirus cases crept toward 100, and the first cases with no known source broke out in Berkshire County, Governor Charlie Baker declar...