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Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 37 Issue 40 Thursday, October 1, 2020 50¢ Up next for Bayside: ‘Dorchester Bay City’ BY KATIE TROJANO REPORTER STAFF A 34-acre waterfront site on Columbia Point will be transformed into “Dorchester Bay City” — a new community with a mix of housing, retail and public space —according to new documents filed by Accordia Partners LLC with city officials on Sept. 23. The Accordia team signed a 99-year lease with UMass Boston last year and will manage the build-out of the former Bayside Expo Center land in a deal that could net the university up to $235 million over the coming years. Accordia also controls the land at 2 Morrissey Blvd, now home to Santander Bank, across the street from the Bayside site. Accordia has been engaged in a planning effort that included community meetings prior to the onset of the covid-19 crisis. “From the outset we have A rendering shows what the proposed Dorchester Bay City community on Columbia Point might look like once fully devel- envisioned this project as oped over the next decade. Image courtesy Accordia Partners/Epsilon Associates Inc. more than just a collection of buildings and uses, but as an Review process starts this month Editorial: A chance to opportunity to create a real start fresh on Columbia estate platform that drives BY DANIEL SHEEHAN mittee (CAC) comprised of ar- for October, November, and economic empowerment and Point. Page 8 REPORTER STAFF chitects, organization heads, December. The first commu- wealth creation for all through As design plans for the pro- and other local residents nity-wide virtual forum is set ers of the site proceed with the creation of infrastructure posed Dorchester Bay City from surrounding Dorchester for Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. a holistic vision that takes improvement to connect a project on Columbia Point be- neighborhoods. The CAC was Input provided by the indi- into account the needs of the community, and through di- gin to take form, city planners scheduled to hold its first viduals on the CAC, who hail neighborhood. versity and inclusion across and developers will consider meeting virtually Wednesday from a wide range of civic and Rosemary Powers, president all levels of the Project,” Kirk feedback from a 25-person night, with five more CAC institutional backgrounds, are of Cristo Rey High School in (Continued on page 12) Community Advisory Com- and public meetings slated intended to help the develop- (Continued on page 13) St. Mary’s leader Campbell jumps into sees silver lining Mayor’s race for ’21 in virus response A two-person field — for now ‘Families getting the BY KATIE TROJANO REPORTER STAFF attention they deserve’ District 4 City councillor An- BY KATIE TROJANO drea Campbell announced on REPORTER STAFF on Sept. 24 that she’s running A new leader has taken up the helm at St. for Mayor in 2021. A native Mary’s Center for Women and Children on Bostonian, Campbell said in Dorchester’s Jones Hill. Alexis Steel, a for- her campaign video that she’s mer chief operating officer at the facility, was running “because every neigh- Andrea Campbell elected president by the board of trustees in borhood deserves real change Alexis Steel was named president of St. Mary’s Jesse Costa WBUR photo early September. and to give every Bostonian a Center for Women and Children this month. “In this profound moment St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children Photo courtesy St. Mary’s chance to succeed.” is a shelter established in 1993 that helps fam- Campbell’s campaign re- of reckoning for our country and our city, as people rise ilies achieve emotional stability and economic are minorities— about 87 percent— and they leased a video that leans up to demand change, Bos- independence through education, workforce are the most impacted by both covid and social heavily on her roots in the city, ton needs leadership that development and permanent housing. injustice. Right now, the shining light that I her connection to the Boston not only understands, but In an interview with the Reporter on Monday, can see throughout the pandemic is that our Public Schools and her work Steel — who has been the acting president since families are getting the attention they deserve.” as a councillor. (Continued on page 4) lasty January— talked about her new role, as The families and staff at St. Mary’s “were hit well as the effects the pandemic. hard” by the pandemic, she said, but quickly All contents “I think the toughest part about covid and adapted to implement health and safety pre- everything that’s going on with social justice is cautions. © 2020 that our families have had one of the toughest “About a third of our workforce was out years in history,” she said. They’re being hit by due to covid,” said Steel. “We were not an Boston Neighborhood both sides. The majority of our families here (Continued on page 16) News, Inc. WE’RE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD! 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Mas- 12:30 p.m. If you are not sachusetts is still only currently a patients— or showing “minimal” in- have a question— call fluenza-like illness ac- ahead to 617-822-8271 tivity, according to the and schedule an appoint- U.S. Centers for Disease ment. Control. But it is best Massachusetts is slat- to get a flu shot by the ed to receive 1.156 mil- end of October, since flu lion doses of flu vaccine activity generally picks this year, a 28 percent up in the late fall. In increase over the 900,000 The Boston Fire Department responded to 141 three-quarters of the 36 that the state orders for a and 145 Howard Ave. in Dorchester around 7:30 flu seasons from 1982-83 typical flu season, accord- p.m. last Friday (Sept. 25) for what turned into a through 2017-18, peak flu everyone immunized,” by the end of 2020. ing to a report from State three-alarm fire at the two closely-spaced houses. activity has not occurred she said. “With covid, Baker made the order House News Service. About 30 residents - 21 of them children - got out until January or later, the we want to make sure if based on concerns of “hav- Cotterell said Tuesday safely, the department says, adding one firefighter CDC said. people are vaccinated for ing the flu and COVID-19 that testing continues for was injured while battling the blaze. Codman Square Health the flu and they do get surge in the Common- Covid-19 at Codman, but ••• Center has been ad- sick, it’s one less screen- wealth at exactly the said the positive rate “is Man shot to death on Hubbardston Road – A ministering flu shots to ing that we have to worry same time,” which he said well below” the 4 percent man was shot to death at 16 Hubbardston Rd., a patients since Sept. 14, about.” “would be an incredibly statistic that might trig- normally quiet residential side street off Savin Hill according to Sandra Cot- Cotterell says she is difficult situation for ger more concern. Avenue, around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday. terell, CEO and president advising people in her [health officials] to man- “We are going to con- The victim— an adult man who has not yet been of Codman. She herself own home and office to get age their way through tinue to monitor it, but named by Boston Police— was found suffering has received her shot the vaccine now, before and they urged us to step we’re not seeing any from multiple gun shot wounds on the porch of a and says that people in the colder weather sets in up our game.” concerns right now, but three-family house on this dead-end street that the neighborhood should and demand gets bigger. The governor got a flu that could dramatically overlooks the southeast expressway and the Savin make a plan now to get it Gov. Charlie Baker has shot on Sept. 17 at a CVS change as people start to Hill Red Line station. done sooner rather than ordered that all students store in Roslindale. Flu come together in larger A neighbor, who heard the commotion before and later. in Massachusetts, from shots are available at groups,” said Cotterell. after the shooting, told the Reporter on Monday that “The vaccine is avail- pre-school to college, most local pharmacies. State House News Ser- the home in question has been the source of other able and we encourage and kids who participate (It’s best to call ahead.) vice reports contributed problems over the summer. everyone to take it this in child care programs, You can also call your to this article. “The property is used as an AirBnb and that was year.