Washington Street
Holey moley: Developer that actually builds things downtown to take lead on Filene's project
By adamg - 2/3/12 - 6:37 am
The lights were on but nobody was home the other night, CKP reports.
The Globe reports Millennium Partners has struck a deal with the owner of the Hole to actually build a tower on the negative space on Washington Street.
Millennium Partners built the Ritz and is currently building a new residential tower on the other side of Washington Street. Vornado Realty Trust of New York tore down most of Filene's - it will remain a "passive" partner in the new project.
Details of the plan - such as the exact specs of the tower and whether the city sweetened the deal with promises of Liberty Mutual-style tax breaks - remain unknown. The Globe says Millennium Partners expects to file its proposal within two months.
Downtown Crossing probably won't be this busy today
By adamg - 11/25/11 - 10:45 am
Back in 1921, Leslie Jones captured the scene at Washington and Winter streets - before Easter, not Christmas. If you look at the larger version, you can see where E.B. Horn was and still is.
From the Boston Public Library's street views collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
Citizen complaint of the day: The sleeping driver on the idling school bus
By adamg - 11/3/11 - 8:04 amAn annoyed resident reports from Washington Street in Roslindale:
Bus driver of HS102 sleeping in idling bus in front of my house yet again. Stays for an hour. He is also very rude.
No indication if that's before or after his route, the operation of which has become a matter of some urgency for city officials of late.
Rainy night in Chinatown
By adamg - 10/28/11 - 9:26 pm
Photographynatalia walked around Chinatown last night.
Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The safe sitting on the sidewalk at 2 a.m. attracted officers' attention
By adamg - 9/22/11 - 6:17 amBoston Police report arresting a Dedham man on charges he broken into a Roslindale jewelry store and tried to make off with its safe early Monday.
Police say officers on routine patrol on Washington Street around 2 a.m. spotted a safe sitting next to the trunk of James McCart's car outside CTC Elite Jewelry, 4429 Washington St. - less than a block away from Roslindale's little drug bazaar. As they turned their cruiser around to get a closer look, police say, McCart, 46, took off.
The officers were able to pull him over several blocks away, in front of 40 Hillock St., where they noticed blood smeared along the rear and side of the car - and on McCart's hands, police say. McCart denied the large gash on his leg came from smashing into the store, but instead from a work injury the day before. Officers expressed skepticism and arrested him on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime and possession of burglarious tools.
Innocent, etc.
Dominican restaurant in Roslindale seeks to expand
By adamg - 5/11/11 - 12:54 pmLa Guira y Tambora, 4014 Washington St., goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on May 24 for permission to add an extension in the rear that will let it expand from 49 to 93 seats. The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the board's hearing room on the eighth floor of City Hall.
Two non-profits take crack at reusing Roslindale Square's decaying brick behemoth
By lex.galloway - 4/4/11 - 5:13 pm
Two non-profit groups are the latest to take a whack at finding uses for the long dormant, increasingly decaying Roslindale Square substation, which lost its purpose decades ago when trolleys stopped running down Washington Street.
City shuts Forest Hills auto wholesaler for environmental violation
By adamg - 3/21/11 - 12:50 pmActing on complaints from neighboring residents about unregistered cars on their streets, city inspectors and Boston Police last week swarmed Boston Best Auto, 3575 Washington St., Capt. John Greland at District E-13 reports.
Greland said that when inspectors arrived last Wednesday, they found numerous unregistered cars being advertised for sale to the public. And one, he wrote, was leaking oil into a catch basin:
A test conducted by the Boston Fire Department’s Hazmat Team showed oil in the catch basin. As a result, the business was ordered closed until the damage could be addressed and remedied.
The Inspectional Services Department will set up a hearing for the owner of the business where violations found on the property will be further discussed and addressed.
Is state getting ready to put Rte. 1 back where it used to be?
By adamg - 2/25/11 - 9:21 amIn 2008, the state erected a sign on Centre St. just before the VFW Parkway that sure seemed to indicate Rte. 1 was just around the bend. Now a brand-new "Rte. 1 Jct" sign has gone up on Washington Street southbound in Dedham, just by the mall and just before the rotary with what was once Rte. 1, before the state decided it was very important that Rte. 1 smush with Rte. 128 instead of ambling along the Riverway, Jamaicaway and VFW Parkway.
Shooting in Egleston Square sends man to hospital
By adamg - 1/30/11 - 5:08 pmBoston Police report finding a 20-year-old with a gunshot wound at 3106 Washington St. around 9:30 p.m., on Saturday.
He was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital and is expected to recover, police say.
