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The property owner for The Mix Restaurant, Mark Little of Abacus Builders, has filed with the city’s Planning Department to build a new, six-story mixed-use building on the site with room for an unnamed restaurant on the ground floor and no on-site... Read more
Rendering of proposed new buildings
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans to replace a three-family home at 77 Bailey St. with two new buildings with a total of 12 condos. Plans by the lot's owner, Patrick Targete, call for two affordable units and six parking spaces behind... Read more
April is shaping up to be a very disruptive one along the Ashmont leg of the Red Line. The MBTA, which had already announced a plan to suspend train service entirely between Ashmont and JFK-UMass from April 1-9, said today that so-called “shuttle trains”... Read more
Raging torrent of escaping BWSC water
Editor's Note: This story was updated on Wed., Sept.18 at 11:30 a.m. A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, turning Peabody Square into an... Read more
Rendering of proposed new condos
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a developer's plans to renovate a single-family home at 9 Fuller St. and add a rear extension with four floors - to create a total of 14 condos. Anthony Monahan's plans call for three of the units to be sold... Read more
Three entrepreneurs hoping to replace the old Ashmont Grill at 555 Talbot Ave. at Dorchester Avenue with a seafood restaurant say they could begin "soft opening" next month, with a more formal grand opening in May. The Boston Licensing Board decides... Read more
The former Ashmont Grill site at 555 Talbot Ave. has sold to a South Boston developer who has tapped The Lobzter King catering company as the new tenant to open a full-service restaurant – a Black-owned venture that will be known as ‘The Mix.’ Mark Little... Read more
The FBI on Friday arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest... Read more
A large fight among TechBoston Academy students that started on the basketball court in Roberts Playground near Armandine and Washington streets ended with at least two students stabbed and another under arrest. Police initially responded around 2:45 p.m... Read more
Construction has begun on a vacant lot next to Ashmont Station this week after the property was purchased in late September by Dorchester-based developer Doug George, who purchased the property for $4.75 million. The property at 1970 Dorchester Ave. is... Read more

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