Boston University says it's going to be at least a couple years before it formally says what it's going to do with the parcel at the end of Ashford Street in Allston that it bought from City Realty this week.Read more.
BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.
Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.
Tyler Finney reports, in the Allston/Brighton Community Discussion group on Facebook, that she and other residents of 65 Ashford St. in Allston were sound asleep early Saturday when the house caught fire. She says he is likely only alive because of two strangers who noticed the fire, broke into the house and woke everybody up - because her apartment's smoke detectors didn't go off: Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire reported at 65 Ashford St. around 2 a.m. on Saturday injured one resident and caused an estimated $2 million in damage. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved City Realty's proposal for a 17-story, 254-unit apartment building at Ashford and Malvern streets in Allston. Read more.
Last Thursday night, somebody walked in through an unlocked front door at one of those student houses on Ashford Street in the GAP and made off with five MacBook Pro laptops - and $400 in cash - Sgt. Edward McMahon told the Allston Civic Association this evening. Read more.
Rendering by Embarc Studio.
City Realty, which is already working to remake the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street, today filed plans for a 17-story, 254-unit building with small apartments on Ashford Street at Malvern Street. Read more.
City Realty, which used to specialize in small apartment buildings, says it will soon file plans for a 16-story, 262-unit residential building on Ashford Street, next to the West Station commuter rail station that state officials once pushed but which more recently have said they would put off until 2040 or so. Read more.
Around 10:10 p.m. by two men, one described as Hispanic, 5'8" to 5'10" with a slight goatee and wearing a gray hoodie. They took the victim's book bag, phone and wallet and fled down Ashford towards BU.
When Quincy T. Holland of Brighton learned the man he was holding up early this morning at Ashford and Chester streets had no money, police say, he sliced him with a knife, bit his ear, then took his phone. Read more.
Boston University Police are reporting three reports today of a man going up to women, groping them, then fleeing.
The first attack was between 4 and 4:30 p.m. at Ashford and Chester street - not far from where two women were groped early Saturday.
The next attacks happened between 855 Commonwealth Ave. and the BU Bridge, police say.
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