Ruth S. Downs, age 97, of Madison, WI, died on April 10, 2024, at Oakwood Hospice. She was born in Staten Island, NY, on November 13,1926, the daughter of Louis
The board approved 876 housing units in six neighborhoods around the city, including a 220-unit apartment complex at the site of the former New England Casket Co. in East Boston.
Mayor Wu has put forward her first appointees to the board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency. In filings with the City Council, Wu submitted the names of three people, including one who is a reappointment: • Priscilla Rojas, the current BPDA board chair who was first appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh in 2015 and in 2020 became the first woman and Latina to helm the
Brian Golden, who has led the city’s planning and development arm for the past eight years, will step down at the end of this month. Golden told the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Board of Directors at its monthly meeting that he was honored to hold the post, that “the work is almost never easy but it is always consequential and important.” “I have loved my job