The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved a marijuana dispensary at 297 Newbury St. in the Back Bay, granting a variance to let it open just steps from two other existing dispensaries. Read more.
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By adamg - 9/24/24 - 10:14 pm
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint tonight about the unusually loud noise coming from the Vicinity Energy steam plant on Kneeland Street in Chinatown:
Very loud screeching sound coming from Vicinity Steam plant. Started around 9am yesterday and today. Still going on now.
By adamg - 9/24/24 - 2:05 pm
Rendering of proposed store's interior.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a UPS store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. with a 900-square-foot "provision" market focusing on high-end beverages - and kosher wines - and prepared gourmet foods, aimed not at the thousands of underage Boston College students right across the street but at nearby residents looking for a more convenient place to stock up than Cleveland Circle or Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/24 - 12:16 pm
An ISD housing inspector looking at a second-floor apartment at 194 Harold St. in Roxbury on Oct. 21, 2021 today sued the building's owners and property manager for the permanent injuries she says she suffered in a fall down the stairs after the manager's dog lunged at her. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/24 - 4:51 pm
Gov. Healey last week signed a bill giving Boston 225 new liquor licenses, most to be doled out to restaurants in 13 specific Zip codes - and at prices nowhere near the $600,000 or more that most current licenses go for on the open market. Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/24 - 8:59 pm
Update, Tuesday a.m.: The MBTA rolled out shuttle buses to replace Ashmont Red Line service after the water disrupted power to the trains.
A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street in Dorchester around 6 p.m., struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main, turning Peabody Square into an impassible lake and forcing firefighters to evacuate at least one building after they started smelling a strong odor of gas. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 10:36 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports the Rhode Island-based Hasbro is eyeing possible space in downtown Boston for a new corporate HQ. With Lego blocking out space for its new US headquarters in the Back Bay, could Boston be on the verge of becoming the Fun Hub?
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 5:47 pm
The Black Rose bar on State Street today sued a Westborough bakery - which now has an outlet on Newbury Street - for also calling itself Black Rose. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 11:31 am
Deep Thoughts Records on South Street in Jamaica Plain announced this morning it's closing up shop on Sept. 29 and moving to the Happy Valley - closer to where its owners live: Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/24 - 3:40 pm
Boston Police posted an urgent message, in big red letters today: Stop showing up at the Carney Hospital ER, because it doesn't exist anymore. Call 911 instead, because unlike Steward, they care.
By adamg - 9/12/24 - 2:48 pm
Thank goodness for e-mail. A business owner on Hillside Street on Mission Hill just sent us the following note about the local mail catastrophe, full of mail piling up in a post office in heap after growing heap: Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/24 - 12:18 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from Pimental Market, 340 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, to expand its alcohol offerings from beer and wine to hard liquor. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/24 - 10:32 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state energy board properly approved Eversource's plans for a substation on Condor Street in East Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/24 - 2:24 pm
The Conservation Law Foundation today sued Greyhound Lines, saying the company is letting its drivers idle their diesel-powered buses - and spew out noxious chemicals - for more than the five minutes allowed by state law. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/24 - 12:15 pm
The state Attorney General's office yesterday filed for permission to confiscate $182,189.11 it says Boston Police found in a May raid of the Harvard Convenience Store and what police described as its illegal three-machine slots parlor at Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/24 - 12:44 pm
Feel the sine wave of surging AC in this rendering by Burns & McDonnell and RODE Architects.
A Boulder, CO company last week filed plans for the two-story, 50-foot-tall big battery building it's proposing for, really, the best street in all of Boston for something like that: Electric Avenue in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 9/4/24 - 1:26 pm
Tow companies last month sued the Registry of Motor Vehicles for slowing down and even stopping the processing of documentation they need to sell off cars they say they towed at the request of local police but which are now just taking up space in their garages because the cars' owners are not coming forward to reclaim them. Read more.
By HarryMattison - 8/30/24 - 4:33 pm
Not sure this qualifies for the "dining" tag, but felt this public service announcement can't go unmentioned
https://www.silhouetteallston.com/event/get-a-sil-tattoo-free-hot-dog-a-...
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 2:48 pm
The Dorchester Reporter visits the Dorchester Avenue institution in its final hours of being bled dry by investors.
By adamg - 8/29/24 - 9:27 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports not everybody is enamored of a city proposal to do to Columbia Road between Blue Hill and Massachusetts avenues what happened on Columbus Avenue. Quotes one pizza-shop owner who predicts dedicated bus lanes would add 20 minutes to all his deliveries.
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