Marcelo Suárez-Orozco will be officially installed as the ninth permanent chancellor of UMass Boston this Friday (April 5) in a ceremony that will be held, in part, on a newly built campus Quad. Hailed as the new “centerpiece” of the Dorchester Bay campus, the walking paths and green space have replaced what was once the university’s hulking red-brick Science Center and a
The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) signed off on plans for the $5 billion transformation of several Columbia Point parcels known as “Dorchester Bay City.” The massive project spans 36.26 acres, bounded by public property, including a shoreline owned by the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), property owned by the State Police,
US Rep. Stephen Lynch and local lawmakers have registered their support for the multibillion “Dorchester Bay City” development, which would create a million square feet of new, mixed-used development on the former Bayside Expo Center property and surrounding parcels. The project has been the subject of hundreds of meetings over the last several years, as the developer,