For dozens of years, a city-owned building roughly the size of three college dorm rooms that is sandwiched between a Colonial-era cemetery and Columbia Road in Uphams Corner sat abandoned, featuring for public view gaping holes in its roof and containing extensive water damage. Come summer, things will be different: The building will offer Dorchester residents affordable,
The latest plan to re-develop the site of a longtime automotive business next to Shawmut MBTA station was the subject of a public meeting last Thursday (Nov. 18) as the Melville-Park Association convened in-person inside the nearby Epiphany School to hear from representatives of the Dorchester-rooted firm Trinity Financial. At issue is the re-use of Fitzpatrick Brothers