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A maintenance notice in the Warren Towers dormitory. Renovations to improve Warren Towers will begin over winter break and be completed by 2028. SIENA GLEASON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Warren Towers renovations to occur over next 3 years

Tavishi Chattopadhyay November 21, 2024
Renovations to Warren Towers will begin to take place over the upcoming winter break, with the project expected to be completed by 2028.
Pepén at his election watch party on Nov. 7.

City Council will welcome four new members

Daily Free Press Staff November 17, 2023
Voters across Boston elected candidates to fill all 13 seats on City Council on Nov. 7, many of whom were reelected to their current positions. However, four new members will soon be sworn into office as the newly elected representatives from districts 3, 5, 6 and an at-large seat.
Michelle Wu

Dozens of Boston infrastructure projects approved, funded through Community Preservation Act

Crystal Yormick April 28, 2023
Mayor Michelle Wu announced the approval of 56 affordable housing, historic site and recreational projects last Friday, funded by $40 million from the Community Preservation Act.
BPDA Development

Mayor Wu signs executive orders to restructure the BPDA

Matthew Eadie February 2, 2023
Mayor Michelle Wu introduced legislation transforming the structure of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) by ending decades-long urban renewal projects and establishing a new charter and department for Boston’s city planning and design process.
Warren Towers

BU submits $1 billion Institutional Master Plan for renovation and development plans for the following decade

Kwot Anwey November 9, 2022
Boston University Board of Trustees submitted the 2023-2033 Institutional Master Plan which outlined renovation projects.
Parcel 12 hynes

Construction moves along near Hynes Convention Center on skyscraper project over Mass Pike

Zach Schwartz September 30, 2022
Construction for a new commercial development continues near Hynes Convention Center, which will link Back Bay and Fenway in Boston
East to West: September 23, 2022

East to West: September 23, 2022

Taylor Hawthorne September 23, 2022

Happy first day of fall! Today on East to West we cover a fire in Allston which left close to $3 million in damages, a campus-wide power outage,Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis and more. Click here...

Marvelous Cuts’ Facebook page. Marvelous Cuts was one of 105 small Black-owned businesses that attended a virtual meeting Feb. 11 hosted by the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts in conjunction with the Boston Planning and Development Agency to learn about potential investment opportunities. SYDNEY ROTH/DFP STAFF

Boston Planning & Development Agency connects businesses with financial opportunities

Casey Choung February 15, 2022
BPDA partnered with Black Economic Council of Massachusetts ​to connect local businesses with financial opportunities.
citgo sign obstructed by building

Students express disapproval as new Kenmore Square building slowly covers iconic BU Citgo sign

Madhri Yehiya October 21, 2021
60-foot-by-60-foot sign no longer fully visible from a distance in the west direction along Comm Ave.
Sunset Cantina on Commonwealth Avenue near the Boston University West Campus. Businesses around university campuses have faced an influx of student customers since the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions and the start of the academic year. SHANNON DAMIANO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘Our new demographic’: Local businesses reflect on influx of customers as students return

Divya Sood September 13, 2021

As COVID-19 restrictions relax and students repopulate campus at BU and elsewhere in the city, Boston-area businesses have faced an increase in student customers. The McDonald’s in Kenmore Square...

cars on harvard avenue in allston

Master Plan hatched for Allston-Brighton

Greye Dunn April 12, 2021
Activists said the City Council failed to protect residents against rent hikes and gentrification.
A street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced Tuesday that 1,023 new units of affordable housing were created last year in Jamaica Plain and other neighborhoods. COURTESY SARAH NICHOLS VIA FLICKR

Boston adds affordable housing units with Boston 2030 initiative

Taylor Brokesh February 4, 2021
The City of Boston permitted 1,023 new units of affordable housing across Boston in 2020 — the largest addition in three years.
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