Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a traffic stop at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester. Read more.
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By adamg - 4/9/24 - 1:08 pm
Bird-enhanced rendering of proposed new school front by CBT.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Conservatory Lab Charter School to add a cafeteria, gym and new classroom to its K1-to-grade-2 school at 131 Hancock St. in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/23 - 8:53 pm
Rendering with lens flare by Vanko Studio.
Ed. note: Story updated to note the current building will not be torn down.
The owner of the building that now houses the Fernandez IV Liquors, a pizza place and a laundromat on Hancock Street at Trull Street in Dorchester has proposed adding three floors of apartments, with the liquor store and the laundromat remaining during construction. Read more.
By adamg - 4/26/23 - 1:13 pm
Update: All approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Dorchester resident Yimi Lajara open Mofongo Factory Restaurant at 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester - and to allow a franchisee to open Halal and spicy-fried-chicken places at the South Bay mall. Read more.
By adamg - 2/23/23 - 2:05 pm
Rendering by RODE Architects.
A developer has filed plans to replace a car wash at 247 Hancock St. in Dorchester with a six-story, 47-unit residential building. Read more.
By adamg - 1/26/23 - 4:04 pm
The Boston Licensing Board this week canceled the license of La Parrilla on Hancock Street following a hearing at which police said three people were shot in October an illegal after-hours basement club run by the son of some woman in New York, rather than the licensed owner. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/23 - 1:14 pm
La Parrilla after the shootings (via Dorchester Reporter).
Update: Licensed canceled.
Diustin Cruz, the owner of La Parrilla, 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester, didn't appear at a licensing hearing today on a triple shooting early on Oct. 30 in what police say was an illegal after-hours club, where customers could order an entire bottle of liquor or take puffs on a hookah until the sun came up. Read more.
By adamg - 10/30/22 - 1:30 pm
Three people were shot inside La Parilla restaurant, 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester, around 5:50 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 3/31/22 - 1:19 pm
Boston Police responded to a report of some "male anatomy" on Hancock Street in Dorchester's Uphams Corner around 7:20 a.m. yesterday to find a severed penis, which may have been sitting there for several hours. Read more.
By adamg - 9/21/21 - 9:15 am
BWSC reports it had already shut off water in the area of Myrtle and Hancock streets for some repair work overnight when a contractor "broke a gate valve" at Hancock and Myrtle streets around 12:30 a.m., briefly creating a roaring river, complete with waterfalls. Read more.
By adamg - 10/15/20 - 11:01 am
Rendering by Studio Luz Architects.
Urbanica of Roxbury has filed plans with the BPDA to build 15 "affordable" condos at 120-122 Hancock St., at the base of Dorchester's Jones Hill, near Howe Street. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/20 - 9:35 pm
Seized guns and ammunition.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges for the three illegal weapons and ammunition they say officers found in his apartment - where they initially went while following a blood trail after a knife fight in the parking lot of a nearby liquor store Saturday night. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/20 - 8:56 pm
At Hancock and Trull streets, around 8:45 p.m, in a knife fight. Police found one victim on the third floor of a nearby house, and a second outside - and then a car drove up to a local emergency room with two more stabbing victims.
By adamg - 3/4/20 - 9:36 am
Live Boston reports a man was shot on Hancock Street, between Trull and Glendale streets, around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 1/9/20 - 1:40 pm
The Dorchester Reporter provides an update on the four-acre, $200-million project on Dorchester Avenue at Hancock Street.
By adamg - 7/24/18 - 10:51 am
The developer of a 36-unit apartment building at 233 Hancock St. in Dorchester has notified the BPDA it is planning to increase the number of affordable units from 5 to 10 and to restrict the rent on another 11 units - in part due to funding from a property-tax surcharge approved by Boston voters in 2016. Read more.
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