The Boston Licensing Board today approved a proposed Papa John's at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner after the franchisee agreed to add salads, and possibly other healthy offerings to its menu - and to require all delivery drivers to make pickups through a rear door rather than clogging up the already crowded street out front. Read more.
Update: Food-serving license approved.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to a Papa John's franchisee for an outlet at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester's Field's Corner. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the McDonald's at 500 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester's Fields Corner to extend its current midnight closing time to 3 a.m. - but only for pick ups by third-party delivery services, so burger-mad night owls will have to punch in their orders at home.
Nobody objected to the plan at a hearing yesterday. The franchisee at the location already operates similar wee-hour pickup service in Allston and at TD Garden.
Boston Police report officers responding to a ShotSpotter activation for gunfire at Westville and Ditson streets in Dorchester's Fields Corner around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday found a man with a gun in his left pocket. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter posts renderings of the proposed memorial at Town Field.
Boston firefighters responding to a medical call found a man stabbed in the chest and stomach at the Charles Street entrance to the Fields Corner MBTA stop in Dorchester around 8:05 p.m. on Sunday. He was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
It's the second stabbing near the station in less than a week.
The Dorchester Reporter updates us on opposition to a proposed Papa John's francise on Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner, not because of the quality of the pizza as because it's an out-of-state business rather than something more homegrown - such as Antonio's Hi-Fi Pizza across the street. The proposed franchisee, though, is a Dorchester resident.
Boston Police report officers had little trouble finding a suspect in a moped robbery yesterday: He was the guy being pinned to the ground by a group of people at Arcadia Park and Ditson Street in Dorchester's Fields Corner. Read more.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the venerable Blarney Stone, 1505 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, sell his liquor license to Yancarlo Fernandez of Dorchester, who is planning a new menu focusing on "modern international cuisine" and tapas, his attorney said today. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a remembrance in Fields Corner of "Black April" - when Saigon fell and thousands of people fled the Communists. Many of those refugees settled in the Dorchester neighborhood.
The Dorchester Reporter delivers the news that Fields Corner Main Streets is leading a battle to keep a Papa Johns franchise out of a vacant storefront in an area that already has several pizza places. The group says that anybody truly desperate for a Papa Johns pie can get one delivered via Uber Eats and that what the neighborhood really needs is a place that doesn't duplicate what's already available.
Update: Hotel found not at fault.
A man's planned $120 bed romp at the Back Bay Hilton turned into an armed robbery that ended with the prostitute and another john arrested immediately - and him being summonsed into court on a charge of sex for a fee - BPD detectives told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the planned opening of Just Bookish in the new Dot Crossing building at 1463 Dorchester Ave.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a growing effort to convert the "tunnel cap" that covers the Red Line between Fields Corner and Ashmont into a something more parklike, a greenway for pedestrians and bicyclists. Small sections are already in use for parks, but other sections are fenced off.
City Councilors decided today to begin focusing on what to do if Steward Health Care, which runs St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, goes under - and to deal with the more immediate issue of Walgreens closing yet another pharmacy in Roxbury and CVS in the Fields Corner Target. Read more.
Victim identified at Curtis Effee, 41.
Boston Police report a man was shot at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester around 12:50 a.m. Read more.
Rendering of project on lot that touches Fields Corner Red Line stop by Hue Architecture.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a five-story building with 14 studio apartments on a lot that ends at a wall for the Fields Corner Red Line stop in Dorchester. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester, to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place. Read more.
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