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
Developers on Tuesday pitched their early plan for three key Morrissey Boulevard parcels to members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association – a collection of 9- to 22-story buildings and 3 parks on 9 acres between the JFK/UMass MBTA Station and the Boston Globe’s former headquarters. The complex would house a combination of life sciences companies and residential and
Residents and coastal resiliency advocates weighed in on plans for the sprawling Dorchester Bay City development at a public meeting last Thursday (Feb. 17) focused on urban design, open space, and sustainability. The Boston Planning and Development Agency has extended the public comment period for this stage of the project to March 25 to allow more time for the community to
The Beat on Morrissey Boulevard now has a tenant and a food hall operator – and new plans for even more space for life sciences operations just a few steps behind the building, which was once the headquarters of the Boston Globe. A tour of the four floors of 135 Morrissey Blbvd. last week offered a look inside the 700,000-square-foot facility, which is expected to be home to
By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
April 22, 2021
Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff
The UMass Boston Coalition Against Gentrification – a group composed of campus union and student organization members – hosted a virtual campus community “Teach-In” last Thursday afternoon in protest of the negative economic, racial, and environmental impacts they say the current Dorchester Bay City (DBC) development proposal would have on neighboring communities.
During the virtual meeting, representatives of Undergraduate Student Government, faculty from the UMB Urban Planning and Community Development Department, and community organizers from the Asian American Resource Workshop and anti-gentrification alliance DotNot4Sale called on UMass, the City of Boston, and the DBC developer to engage with Dorchester’s communities of color and other working-class communities to develop a DBC plan that increases affordable housing, slows displacement, generates good jobs and training opportunities