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On Tuesday, a multi-year campaign to get parts of Fields Corner designated as an official cultural district dubbed “Little Saigon” won final approval from the state-funded Mass Cultural Council. The vote by the council’s governing body was unanimous and followed words of support from the Boston City Council, former Mayor Walsh and current Mayor Kim Janey, along with many supporters from the Vietnamese community here in Dorchester and beyond.
The proposal got additional support on Tuesday from state Sen. Nick Collins, Rep. Dan Hunt and City Councillors Frank Baker and Michelle Wu. So, what does this approval mean? Is Fields Corner now supposed to be called Little Saigon? Not at all, say proponents of the idea.
By Seth Daniel, Special to the Reporter
April 7, 2021
Seth Daniel, Special to the Reporter
The Dorchester travelling teddy takes a breather with a sign that urges: “Drop me off at another Dot location. Let’s keep me going!”
It was more than a week ago when we first spotted what our family has dubbed “Dorchester’s Travelling Teddy” somewhere on the other side of the neighborhood from our house, if I recall correctly – on the far side of Park Street just before the Clam Point railroad bridge.
I saw it first when I was by myself, but soon after my kids saw it, and my wife had seen it too while driving to work in the mornings.
A rendering supplied by TLee Development shows the look of 1463-1469 Dot Ave.
Two Dorchester Avenue housing development projects won approval from the Boston Planning & Development (BPDA) Board of Directors at its final meeting of the year 2020 last Thursday. Along with eight other projects greenlighted by the board last week, the total new developments approved in this calendar year amounts to nearly 16 million square feet in total.
The first of the two Dorchester projects to win approval is a 36 unit complex at the corner of Dot Ave and King Street, which includes two buildings on either corner of King. The proponents of 1700-1710 Dorchester Avenue say the project will include five income-restricted units and will create 35 construction jobs, along with $75,000 in community benefits.