Q. What do you get when you put together a boy from a French dairy farm and a girl from the Midwest? A. Vivian and Elisa Girard. I first ran into Vivian as he was coming out of the Viet Aid building after voting in 2008. I was handing out campaign literature and, typical of him, he wanted to know who I was and why I was doing it. We exchanged contact information and I began a
Somewhere in the middle of pouring the concrete slab and hand-cutting roof joists with a circular saw high above Westville Street, Fields Corner residents Vivian and Elisa Girard believe they found the answer to affordable housing without getting into the red tape of “affordable housing.” Their foray into a new type of housing – efficient studios in the price range of $650 to
The city’s Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) is preparing to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a vacant, city-owned lot on Westville Street that could become the new home of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, now located in Fields Corner. An Institute spokesman, Chris Keohan, confirmed that it will participate in the RFP process, and if successful in that