Pilotblock South End took a stroll down Columbus Avenue in the South End today - the first day that restaurants could re-open their outdoor patio, with enough space between tables. Read more.
Columbus Avenue
By adamg - 6/2/20 - 9:40 am
Inside Clarendon Wine on Boylston Street yesterday.
Looters who smashed into places like Marshalls and Walgreens Sunday night were not particularly discriminating - they also destroyed small mom-and-pop businesses across downtown, the Back Bay and the South End. Read more.
By adamg - 5/20/20 - 2:52 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Coda on Columbus Avenue has closed for good.
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By adamg - 2/7/20 - 9:14 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the Boston Transportation Department is looking to build dedicated bus lanes - and stops - down the center of Columbus Avenue for the 22, 29 and 44 lines. Passengers will get to the stops via new crosswalks. BTD estimates the plan could shave four to seven minutes off the typical ride.
By adamg - 1/14/20 - 10:46 am
Archictect's rendering.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Urban Edge Housing Corp. for a six-story apartment building in which all the units would be rented as affordable, at 1599 Columbus Ave., just south of Centre Street. Read more.
By adamg - 1/7/20 - 11:45 am
A guy who tried to get into M.J. O'Connor's, 27 Columbus Ave., with a lit blunt one night last fall responded to a doorman's request to put it out by extinguishing it - and then punching a bar worker in the face, knocking him unconscious and sparking a brawl between bar workers and his pals that police had to break up, a BPD sergeant and a bar attorney said today. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/19 - 12:10 am
Architect's rendering.
Northeastern University and American Campus Communities of Austin, TX this week filed plans with the BPDA for a 26-story building that would include 21 floors of dorm space atop five floors of academic and office space - and that would let the school sell off other dorm buildings to be turned into tax-generating rental apartments or condos. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/19 - 9:25 am
Architect's rendering.
New Boston Ventures has filed plans with the BPDA to replace the Harriet Tubman House on Columbus Avenue at Massachusetts Avenue with a six-story condo building that would feature a "social enterprise cafe" and space for programs run by the United South End Settlements - which is selling the site to the developers and plans to use the proceeds to renovate its other building on Rutland Street and to support its community programs. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/19 - 9:59 am
Urban Edge Housing Corp. is getting ready to file plans to replace two "distressed" commercial buildings on Columbus Avenue with a six-story building in which all 65 apartments would be rented as affordable. Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/19 - 10:44 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 321 Columbus Ave., near Dartmouth Street, around 1:10 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/19 - 6:06 pm
Kristin Johnson shows us the scene on Columbus Avenue at Cedar Street around 5:45 p.m.
By adamg - 5/28/19 - 10:37 pm
Architect's rendering.
Northeastern University has filed plans with the BPDA for a new eight-story science building next to the new science building it opened on Columbus Avenue in 2017. Read more.
By adamg - 5/11/19 - 10:10 am
UPDATE: Suspect arraigned.
Boston Police report a driver rammed into three pedestrians at Columbus Avenue and Clarendon Street late Friday night. Read more.
By adamg - 5/9/19 - 8:02 am
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University will soon file plans with the BPDA to build a 350,000-square-foot Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Columbus Avenue.
The building, the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex II, will be just up the street from the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex the university just recently finished building.
By adamg - 4/16/19 - 11:17 pm
Ryan Hatcher was across the intersection from New York Pizza tonight when a car parked on Columbus Avenue burst into flames. He reports: Read more.
By Rosabri Mejia - 2/26/19 - 6:16 pm
Lytle makes her case.
Officials at the United South End Settlements say they have little choice but to sell off the Harriet Tubman House on Columbus Avenue and move its programs to another USES building on Rutland Street: The current Harriet Tubman building is in dire need of expensive repairs and most of its programs run at a deficit. Read more.
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