Alongside city-owned and corporate services, Boston’s grassroots organizations are forming a sprawling system of community-led initiatives in Dorchester and Roxbury.
MORE could be done to convert redundant shops to homes and make use of spaces above commercial properties - Dorchester town councillors have been told. The town planning committee heard that bringing homes back into the town centre would help keep remaining businesses afloat and could encourage more, niche, shops and cafes to move in. Local businessman Peter Noble told the online meeting he had no doubt that, like Marks & Spencer, other large retailers would go, leaving the county town with empty properties – unless it was quick to do something about it. He said the former M&S store could be converted to homes with parking spaces accessible from the rear of the building in Trinity Street.