Seems there's a rumor going around Dedham that when Roslindale's Washington-Beech housing project is torn down for renovations, the tenants would be moved en masse to that fair town, and you know what that means.

Didn't seem logical to me (why would Boston residents be forced to move to another town, wouldn't they then stop being Boston residents?), but I asked Lydia Agro, communications director for the Boston Housing Authority, which is coordinating the $100-million rehab. Her basic answer: No. Her longer answer follows:

The Roslindale Transcript reports Boston police looking at the connections between the occupants of a unit at 65 Beechland St. and a spate of gang-related violence that has left nearby residents increasingly fearful.

The paper reports the occupants moved out of the apartment this week rather than wait for the Boston Housing Authority to evict them after a search of their apartment following Tuesday's double shooting on Beechland found drugs and a semi-automatic weapon. Three people were taken into custody following the Tuesday-afternoon shootings; however, no one has been charged yet.

The paper quotes a local police captain as saying the occupants also have connections both to January's triple shooting (in which one man died), following the funeral of a Dorchester gang member.

Unclear from the article is the remaining shooting. An alleged gangbanger from Dorchester and his 12-year-old brother were shot in January on Cornell Street.

In addition to these incidents, police report confiscating drugs and weapons at the project in recent weeks (as well as at the Cornell Street home).

Police have said gang members began showing up in Roslindale when the BHA moved tenants out of Dorchester's Franklin Hill complex for renovations.

Connect the dots: See if you can figure out the location of the Washington-Beech project on this map.

The Boston Housing Authority has won a $20 million grant to tear down the Washington-Beech project and turn it into a mixed-income townhouse neighborhood.

Under the grant, the BHA will replace the existing 266-unit series of apartment buildings with townhouses: 139 public-housing units and 126 affordable rental units. The redevelopment plan also includes money for 71 affordable homes for purchase. The BHA will pay for relocation of residents to other projects or Section 8 rental units during construction.

The grant is good news for nearby residents, who have watched the project become a center of gang-related violent and gun crime in recent months. Police blame this on an influx of new residents from Dorchester's Franklin Hill project, itself a violence-ridden complex that is nearing the end of its own reconstruction.