The city’s development boom is leading to an increase in the number of residential units in buildings big and small, as City Hall hopes to alleviate a housing crisis driven by supply outstripping demand across the region. That development has led to street-level verbal clashes in the neighborhoods as residents who oppose proposals are jousting with developers and neighbors who
As the sun set last Friday, slowly darkening Lower Mills village, the sign atop the Walter Baker Chocolate factory’s administrative building lit up for the first time in nearly 60 years. Hundreds of people gathered at Adams Street and Dorchester Ave. to get a glimpse of the newly bright neon sign, which had been dismantled and taken down for repairs last November. Now
A sunset ceremony and celebration will be held in Lower Mills on Friday, June 10 as a landmark sign atop the former Walter Baker Chocolate Factory Administration building which has been recently refurbished and re-wired is re-lit for the first time in decades. The program will include a tribute to the late Terry Dolan, a civic leader and Lower Mills resident who led the
A Boston-based developer is looking to build his first project in Dorchester at the Rent-All of Boston location on Adams Street in Lower Mills, a 33-unit development on two lots that will capitalize on the existing grade changes to provide 29 underground parking spots.