Old Colony
Old Colony to become All New Colony
By adamg - 4/15/10 - 8:56 amThe BRA yesterday approved a $56.8-million redo of the the Old Colony housing project that will replace the current post-war project with a new six-story building and a series of townhouses.
People interested in what this could look like should take a ride out to Washington and Beech streets in Roslindale, where the city is in the middle of doing the same thing to the Washington-Beech project - for which the BRA also approved the second phase of construction - replacing the remaining old brick buildings with $50 million worth of townhouses and a park.
Court rules public-housing tenants have the same right as everybody else to invite guests in
By adamg - 7/8/09 - 9:44 amThe Massachusetts Court of Appeals today threw out the criminal-trespassing conviction of a man who'd invited into a Boston Housing Authority building by a tenant.
Gregory Nelson, who'd been barred from the Old Colony project in South Boston following an arrest for possession of a dangerous weapon, was arrested again on April 25, 2007, when two housing cops spotted him in a hallway - right next to a large "No Trespassing" sign.
Testimony showed he was there at the invitation of a friend who lived in the building after a night out. And the court noted that the BHA's own leases and police rules state that while a barred person cannot just enter a BHA building and wander around, "a resident does have the right to invite any individual not barred by a restraining order as a guest."
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