Information gathering for the Reimagine Boston Main Streets process is underway, with listening sessions to garner feedback and comments from main streets districts now complete. The goal of the program is to look at main streets programs and resources and decide how they can be strengthened in an equitable way.
The Gazette spoke with the executive directors of Jamaica Plain’s three main streets organizations: Ginger Brown of JP/Centre South Main Streets, Warren Williams of Three Squares Main Street, and Denise Delgado of Egleston Square Main Street, to get their feedback on the Reimagine Boston Main Streets program, as well as to learn more about how the organizations have been helping out their communities over the past year.
What is the future of Bostonâs Black-owned restaurants?
These businesses entered the pandemic at an economic disadvantage. Itâs time for everyone to invest in them, and not just during Black History Month.
By Devra First Globe Staff,Updated February 2, 2021, 6:52 p.m.
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The music cues in the videoâs background, a staccato beat before a jazzy horn kicks in. A masked woman inside Mattapanâs Cafe Juice Up speaks. âHello, Boston,â says Representative Chynah Tyler. âI want to welcome you to the fourth annual Black Restaurant Challenge.â
February is Black History Month, and since 2018 it has been an occasion around which to rally support for the cityâs Black-owned restaurants. The challenge is simple: Patronize one Black-owned restaurant each week of the month. The goal: Keep these businesses in business. Black-owned restaurants are 80 percent more likely to fail within the first year of operation, according to the campaign.