Rendering via J. Garland Enterprises and ICON Architecture.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Urban League to replace its current headquarters on Warren Street in Roxbury with a new six-story building that would have a new office for the league topped with a mix of apartments and condos - 65 in all and all designated as affordable. Read more.
Rendering of view from Warren and Taber by Hresko Associates.
Developer Klaus Kimel has filed plans for a six-story, 40-unit, $11.3-million apartment building with three storefronts on Warren and Taber streets - down the block from the six-story building he's building at Taber and Harrison Avenue. Read more.
BPD photo of the revolver.
Boston Police continued their scrutiny of cars with excessively tinted windows early Sunday, leading to an arrest and the seizure of a loaded revolver in Roxbury. Read more.
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports four people were shot on Warren Street in Nubian Square around 11:10 p.m. on Wednesday. One man was shot in the chest, another in the leg. Another victim got himself to a local trauma center rather than wait around.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed at 39 Warren St. around 12:10 a.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two men on gun charges early this morning in separate incident in which both were initially stopped for speeding - one for allegedly roaring down Blue Hill Avenue at 60 m.p.h. Read more.
A woman had her phone stolen at gunpoint at Warren Street and Camelot Court, and suffered minor scrapes in a robbery around 9:30 p.m. by three men who fled up the hill to the Fidelis Way development. Police nabbed one suspect and found the gun, possibly a BB gun, that may have been used in the robbery.
Developers say they will soon file plans to replace the Urban League's current two-story building where Warren Street turns into Harrison Avenue into a six-story building with 65 apartments and condos - and room for a new Urban League headquarters. Read more.
A man was shot in the chest twice shortly before 11:20 p.m. at 38 Warren St., at Zeigler Street - a couple blocks away from where another man was shot repeatedly in a parking lot off Harrison Avenue early this morning. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
Boston Police report a man's posterior was grazed by a bullet at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Warren Street shortly before 3 a.m. Read more.
At Warren Street and Walnut Avenue, around 11:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in. A suspect is in custody.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a developer's proposal to replace a building at Warren and Winthrop Street that burned down in a 2014 fire with a four-story office building with eight parking spaces. Read more.
Around 9:40 p.m. where Waverly, Warren and Copleland streets meet. No reports of injuries or damage to nearby buildings or cars.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say officers caught red-handed after lifting a large flat-screen TV from St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 230 Warren St. early this morning. Read more.
Update: The mural will be recreated, city says.
Greg Cook reports a crew today demolished the Roxbury Love/Nelson Mandela mural on Warren Street at Clifford Street. Read more.
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