By Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent
May 19, 2021
The Pierce building at Dudley Street and Columbia Road.
The Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation has begun a two-phase rehabilitation of the iconic Pierce Building on Columbia Road, part of the ongoing a plan to revitalize Uphams Corner as an arts and innovation district.
The first phase, including improvements to the first-floor retail space and a small-business loan center for entrepreneurs of color, is slated to be complete before this fall.
“It has long been our goal to restore the Pierce Building so it can serve as a sound and sustainable community resource and an anchor of the Uphams Corner area,” said Perry Newman, CEO of Dorchester Bay EDC.
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 last May and it’s estimated it will be completed this August.
The project includes a mix of 80 residential units – 44 of them designated affordable – along with roughly 20,000 square feet of industrial commercial space. The main building features a connection to the Uphams Corner MBTA train platform to promote the use of public transportation and an accessible playground for wider community use. The Block plans to limit the environmental impact of traffic at its commercial area by cater
By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent
May 6, 2021
Gail Latimore
Since the first uncertain weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has continued to offer desperately needed services to Dorchester residents even as its physical office remained closed.
Tracing its roots to local activism in the 1970s and 1980s, the non-profit has worked to promote affordable housing, homeownership, equitable transit options, and economic development in Codman Square for more than 40 years. The pandemic only added to the group’s already monumental workload, said executive director Gail Latimore in an interview.
“We’re working on the same body of work that we’ve always done, which is affordable housing and commercial development, including the economic line of business, the community organizing line of business, and the development line of business.”
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Miles To Go, Making Strides
by Patrick L. Kennedy ’99
How Carroll School’s M.B.A. students are attacking systemic racism and seeking to make tomorrow’s boardrooms reflect the complexion of America - Published on December 04, 2020
UPDATED: January 14, 2020
The powder might have been the pandemic, which has had a disproportionate impact on people of color. The spark was certainly the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota last spring. At that, a crucial conversation exploded across the country this past summer, forcing many white Americans to acknowledge the realities of systemic racism.
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Boardrooms and business schools have begun reckoning with these realities as well. The numbers don’t lie. While 13 percent of the U.S. population is Black, less than one percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by African-American CEOs. And the representation at elite business schools isn’t vastly more impressive. “We knew we