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Developer James Baker is expanding the scope of his proposed local market project on the corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Sydney Street to include more parking and 15 condominiums in a separate building, he told members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic... Read more
Underused industrial parcels and generally underdeveloped swaths of land along a mile-long stretch of Dorchester Avenue are prime for new planning, residents and city officials agreed during a tour of the PLAN: Glover’s Corner sites last week. After... Read more
Two weeks of free riders on the Fairmount Line kicked off on Monday, a bid to boost ridership on the only commuter rail line to operate entirely within Boston. A group of elected officials and activists stood outside Morton Street station in Mattapan on... Read more
As they milled around a parking lot on the Fort Point Channel on Monday morning, state and city officials used phrases like "global landmark" and "iconic location" to describe the office building that is expected to soon rise above the pavement. The site... Read more
Community members and housing experts engaged in a discussion on development and Dorchester’s trajectory during a wide-ranging forum in the basement hall of St Mark’s Church on Tuesday night. Faced with housing pressures coming to bear on the increasingly... Read more
Under construction on Savin Hill Avenue: New housing units are easing the burden on older housing stock, according to city officials. Jennifer Smith photoCity housing officials say new data are revealing encouraging trends in the rental market for... Read more
Dorchester’s own Donna Latson Gittens, the founder and CEO of MORE Advertising, threw out the first pitch at Monday night’s series-opener between the Red Sox and the Orioles. Gittens, a native of Boston and longtime resident of Ashmont Hill, launched the... Read more
Map shows where off-campus college students live in the cityWith college and university enrollment all but stagnant, only 32 percent of the nearly 149,600 undergraduate and graduate students in Boston live on a campus, according to the city’s third annual... Read more
The old Bayside Expo site as viewed late last year in the middle of demolition. Bill Forry photo Last Thursday evening, the Dorchester Reporter was the first to report that hush-hush negotiations between UMass and the Kraft family to build a 20,000-seat... Read more
UMass says stadium "does not appear feasible." Updated April 28, 3:31 p.m. -- Discussions between UMass Boston and Robert Kraft's sports empire to build a professional soccer stadium on the UMass-owned Bayside site in Dorchester have officially ceased.... Read more

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