The owners of the condos at 524 East Broadway, a four-story building near H Street in South Boston, today sued the Zoning Board of Appeal and the couple that owns the neighboring house, seeking to block construction of a four-story extension to the house next door, saying the board had some nerve approving a four-story addition that will harm them and set a precedent that will let owners of other smallish buildings over-densify the neighborhood. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace Kipo's, 106-108 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown, with six apartments, but rejected plans to replace the office space above the Boston Bagel Company at East Broadway and L Street in South Boston with four condos. Read more.
Eileen Murphy reported from East Broadway in South Boston early this evening on the First Day of No Masks: "Just another Saturday night at The Broadway."
Update: Turns out the photo the 311 kvetcher posted was from neither East Broadway nor today - it was, in fact, a photo from a 2015 WBUR story and shows I Street.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about all the space savers in South Boston today - like this one on East Broadway.
Can we get BTD out to remove all of the space savers out?!? Absolutely ridiculous that there's numerous space savers out for a glorified rain storm
Architect's rendering.
A trio of developers has proposed a five-story, 14-unit condo building at 555 East Broadway at H Street - with 14 underground parking spaces - to replace a convenience store. Read more.
Boston firefighters rushed to East Broadway around 9:35 a.m. when a car drove into Jack Conway Realty.
It is a Mercury Marquis. The driver put it in reverse in the Rite Aid lot across the street. It traveled across Broadway
At 10:10 a.m., the department reported the car's two occupants were still inside and that firefighters are waiting for a building inspector to arrive for a consultation before they try to remove the vehicle, because it hit a load-bearing wall.
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