The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans for a 41-unit, five-story apartment building at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. at Culbert Street in Mattapan. Eight of the units would be rented to people making no more than 30% of the Boston-area median income. The rest would be rented to people making no more than 60% of that level, according to Scott Shaw, overseeing the project
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the owner of the shuttered US Petroleum station at Dorchester Avenue and Semont Road in Dorchester to replace it with a four-story, 14-unit residential building with six parking spaces and ground-floor space for a restaurant. Dimitrios Gerasimidis's attorney, Nicholas Zozula, told the board his client is looking at
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to let Dorchester resident Yimi Lajara open Mofongo Factory Restaurant at 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester - and to allow a franchisee to open Halal and spicy-fried-chicken places at the South Bay mall. The Hancock Street address was formerly La Parilla restaurant, where three people were shot around 5:50 a.m. on Oct. 30 in what