Mayor Michelle Wu’s $3.6 billion capital budget includes 400 projects to be started or completed over the next five years, with 34 identified for Dorchester and 12 specifically for Mattapan.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s $3.6 billion capital budget includes 400 projects to be started or completed over the next five years, with 34 identified for Dorchester and 12 specifically for Mattapan. Local highlights include some $4 million recommended for the Boston Centers for Youth and Families to design a new Dorchester community center based on a recent programming study and a
By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent
April 7, 2021
Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent
Carolyn Nguyen, who grew up in Fields Corner, works as an engine assembly and intergration engineer for Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos. Nguyen is shown next to the BE-7 engine mock-up that she helped to build. Photo courtesy Carolyn Nguyen/Blue Origin
As a first-generation American growing up in Fields Corner, Carolyn Nguyen had no idea that she would one day be building rocket launch systems for Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space exploration company. However, she did enjoy dissembling the Barbies her mother bought her to figure out how the limbs were connected.