Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police have released photos of the guy they say stole a bright-red dump truck trailer and excavator in Allston, then drove it to Westwood, where he dumped them outside the Wegmans on University Avenue. Read more.
A Florida developer says it will soon file plans to replace what it calls a "little used commercial building at 250 Everett St. in Allston with a six-story, 250-unit apartment building with about 117 parking spaces in an underground garage. Read more.
Covering over the hateful graffiti this afternoon.
Somebody with a can of black spray paint tried to scare off the people building and supporting what will be New England's first LGBTQ-friendly senior-citizen apartment complex overnight, by spraying homophobic and threatening messages on signs outside the former Rogers Middle School but all they did was fire those people up who vowed to work even faster to open its doors to its first residents. Read more.
Aileen Montour speaks at Pryde dedication. See it larger.
Local, state and federal officials gathered at the closed William Barton Rogers School in Hyde Park today to dig the ceremonial first shovels of dirt for a project that will turn it into a 74-unit apartment building aimed at LGBTQ senior citizens - the first such project in New England. Read more.
A man now driving an Infiniti stolen from Herb Chambers in Allston has robbed the Citizens Bank branch inside the Everett Street Stop & Shop twice now - and has also knocked over Citizens Bank branches in Stop & Shop stores in Somerville and Revere, the FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force reports. Read more.
The Board of Appeals yesterday approved nine new condos in a three-story Victorian-style building at 16 Everett St., on land that had sat vacant since the state seized it in the 1960s for construction of the interstate highway that never was. Read more.
Architect's rendering.
Stop & Shop and New England Development recently filed their formal plans to turn the current Stop & Shop property on Everett Street in Allston into "a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood focused on healthy living and eating," with up to 1,050 apartments and condos, a state-of-the-art "urban-style grocery store," office and retail space and a half-acre "community green." Read more.
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