Do you like hot chocolate? Are you opinionated? Then join one of the neighborhood’s business development groups for a stroll through Hyde and Jackson squares to pick the best-decorated holiday windows.
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At an event in Jackson Square Monday, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, and other officials gathered to announce that MassWorks Infrastructure Program funding will allow for the delivery of 144 new mixed-income housing units, including 72 affordable apartments, and 2,400 square feet of retail space.
Saturday’s Porchfest coincided with another big community event — the 10th anniversary of the Julia Martin House. The 55-unit building offers something scarce in JP: Affordable housing for the elderly.
Saturday’s Jamaica Plain Porchfest drew thousands to porches, churches and parking lots all over the neighborhood. Here are photos from venues in the Hyde and Jackson Square areas during the third annual event.
On a sun-flooded morning, hundreds of families from Bromley Heath apartments sat in overflow chairs in a crowded tent to listen as Mayor Marty Walsh and Boston Housing Authority William McGonagle renamed the development Mildred C. Hailey Apartments.
Joining them was Anna Mae Cole, a friend and comrade in arms for over 60 years and former chair of the Bromley Heath Tenant Management Corporation that Mrs. Hailey (and yes she was always Mrs. Hailey) directed for 40 years.
Plan B went into full effect at the 6th Plan JP/Rox workshop last Wednesday as 50 protesters marched into the room clapping. Just as the emcee, Senior Planner Marie Mercurio, was concluding her opening remarks, the protesters grabbed what they called “the people’s mic” to “fight not for profit but for the community.”
For over an hour, “Keep it 100% for Egleston,” a well-organized and well-rehearsed group, listed its demands to stop the Boston Redevelopment Authority-sponsored Plan JP/Rox for three months.
The once-in-a-generation planning effort that goes by the name “Plan JP/Rox” has started to produce specifics about what our neighborhood will look like. Here are the ideas being put forward for Jackson Square.