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After scrapping a requirement for companies to enable tipping and roughly matching the House and governor's two-tiered approach toward background checks for drivers, the Senate on Wednesday passed a bill creating a regulatory structure for the novel app-... Read more
As the state Senate prepares to debate a bill regulating ride-for-hire services like Uber and Lyft, drivers are walking around around the new Uber Greenlight Hub in Neponset. The Dorchester shop is Boston’s second, located in a neighborhood where one in... Read more
Community members this week echoed their elected officials’ concerns about a possible siting of a soccer stadium on Columbia Point this week.
Editorial: It's not just the traffic. Bayside impasse makes soccer stadium a long shot
Michael McColgan, who... Read more
Word emerged this week that UMass officials are talking with the Kraft family — owners of the Patriots and the New England Revolution soccer franchise — about siting a 20,000-seat soccer stadium on what used to be the Bayside Expo Center.
UMass officials... Read more
University of Massachusetts officials have had preliminary conversations with the Kraft family and the New England Revolution about the possibility of building a soccer stadium on prime waterfront land owned by the university on the grounds of the old... Read more
Beantown Athletics on Granite Avenue serves a host of sports-related needs for the neighborhood all year-long. This week, they are busy outfitting Dorchester for our biggest celebration of the year: Dorchester Day.
Beantown has a full array of Dot Day... Read more
Community members will have another chance to comment on the Indigo Block redevelopment project next Wednesday when the Boston Redevelopment Authority will be presenting an update on the long-vacant 2.75-acre site in Uphams Corner.
Indigo Block, so named... Read more
Lower Mills Tavern will open next week
Dorchester’s newest restaurant, the Lower Mills Tavern, will officially open its doors next week, just in time for Dorchester Day. It’s worth the wait.
The Reporter was given a chance to peek inside and sample a... Read more
It may seem like just another mixed-use development in a city skyline cluttered with cranes. But this week’s news that the MBTA has finally awarded rights to lease and build on several parcels it owns next to the Mattapan Square T station is a big deal in... Read more
Developers are again moving forward with a condominium complex proposed for a key stretch of Washington Street in Lower Mills. City Point Center, LLC, filed a Letter of Intent with the Boston Redevelopment Authority last Friday. The historically... Read more
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