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Umass Boston's Plans for Dorms Dovetail With Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 31 Issue 42 Thursday, October 16, 2014 50¢ UMass Boston’s plans for dorms dovetail with mayor’s housing goals By Lauren Dezenski reporter staff The University of Massachusetts Boston is exploring its options as it seeks to build residence halls to house 2,000 students on its Mayor Martin Walsh, right, conferred with City Councillor Columbia Point peninsula campus by 2025, Frank Baker and Inspectional Services chief Wlliam Chris- planning that the university says is in line with topher during a walking tour of their Savin Hill neighbor- Mayor Martin Walsh’s just-released citywide hood on Saturday morning. The trio stopped in front of the housing plan to accommodate a population that long-empty and boarded up Savin Hill Variety store that the is expected to grow beyond 700,000 residents mayor called “a blight on the neighborhood.” Bill Forry photo by 2030. “We’re very supportive of the housing plan and we agree that we need to do our part in Close to home, Walsh helping provide places for students to live and relieve some of the pressure that off-campus UMass Boston’s 25 year master plan, published students put on neighborhoods,” UMass in 2009, identifies two sites near the juncture joins walk-through Boston spokesperson DeWayne Lehman told of Mt. Vernon Street and University Drive, the Reporter. shown as it exists today (below) as a “preferred Across the city, the mayor’s report found, location” for the first phase of on-campus by inspection team students living off-campus occupy rental units housing for students. The potential dorms that would otherwise be available to middle are highlighted (above) in orange. ‘Walking office hours’ to canvass city class residents and families. For every three additional students housed on-campus, the By BiLL forry director of the Mayor’s Office study noted, one unit of rental housing is eDitor of Civic Engagement. returned to the work-force housing market. Mayor Martin Walsh joined “It’s in pretty good shape,” “Therefore, student housing creation is a a walk-through of his Savin said Manning when asked to critical relief valve for Boston’s rental housing Hill neighborhood on Satur- assess the overall condition market,” the report concluded. day morning to highlight his of the city’s infrastructure. The city has given the outlines of what office’s efforts to catalogue, “We’ve had 3,000 cases over officials call an aggressive but achievable plan fix, and track solutions to 507 miles so far, and a lot of to locate 16,000 new university dorm beds in ground-level problems on them, about 1800 cases, are the next 15 years, a build-out the city says every street in the city. As a already closed.” will free up 5,000 units of workforce housing light rain fell, the mayor and But there’s always new across the city and reduce off-campus students a small entourage of aides — trouble around every tree by 50 percent. trailed by several TV camera pit, hydrant and curb cut, With just shy of 3,000 students in the crews— walked from his house most of them nuisance items neighborhood as of last year, Dorchester is and Jamaica Plain/Mission Hill. But compared on Tuttle Street and circled like heaving pavement, loose the fourth-most popular neighborhood for off- to Allston and Fenway, where rents average the block via Sydney Street bricks, and road signs ob- campus students, after the traditional student $1,900 and $2,300 respectively, Dorchester’s to Savin Hill Avenue. scured by foliage. hubs of Allston-Brighton, Fenway/Kenmore, (Continued on page 7) Along the way, Walsh stopped As he walked along Tuttle several times to inspect curbs, Street, the mayor pointed brick-work, and pavement, to a yellow “SLOW” sign some of which has been heaved that was partly blocked by Polish Triangle to strut stuff at festival up by mature trees— and to hanging branches. “This slow By Lauren Dezenski on display. The afternoon-long neighborhood as the “Polish get a first-hand look at how sign, we can’t trim the tree reporter staff celebration (noon to 6 p.m.) Triangle.” his liaisons throughout the back because it’s on private Just in time for fall, a re- at the Dorchester Avenue The Triangle, a small neigh- city can identify problems and property, but we can certainly blossoming neighborhood will church will include music and borhood between Dorchester order up fixes in real time. redesign the sign or put it in feature its finest at Sunday’s dancing, children’s activities, Avenue and Boston Street The NEW Boston initiative— a new place,” he said. “This is Harvest Festival in Boston’s Polish food, a book sale, and on the Dorchester and South shorthand for Neighborhood more of an assessment to see Polish triangle. The festival, more, all to benefit the parish. Boston line that is bisected by Engagement Walks— has what we need to do and then held in honor of Our Lady of Mayor Martin Walsh will also Interstate 93, has been home already covered about half of we can add these items to Czestochowa, a sacred icon of make an appearance to mark to the city’s Poles for more than the 850 miles of city-owned capital projects if we need to. the Virgin Mary, is the latest the five-year anniversary a century. But in the last two streets and sidewalks, accord- “It’s a better way to deliver instance of the Polish neigh- since then-Mayor Thomas decades, the neighborhood, ing to Dan Manning, the city’s (Continued on page 5) borhood’s renewal being put Menino officially named the (Continued on page 6) Open Studios puts Dot artists in new frame By eLiza Dewey festival, which takes products. The featured sculpture, videography speciaL to the reporter place October 24-26 at a artists come from a wide and more. Art aficionados and variety of public venues variety of disciplines, The three-day event fans of “buy local” get and artists’ homes, pro- including music, dance, kicks off with an eve- ready – Dorchester Open vides local artists with an photography, painting, ning reception and All contents copyright Studios is back! The free opportunity to showcase ceramics, glass work- performance on Friday, © 2014 Boston annual community art their work and sell their ing, jewelry making, (Continued on page 19) Neighborhood News, Inc. Join Us for Our New Moms' Group at: Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton 199 Reesdale Road Milton, MA 02186 Free of charge. Open to all first-time moms and babies under the age of one. Meets every Friday from 1:00-2:30pm Are You a New Mom? For more information, call 617-667-2229 or email Christine Sweeney at [email protected] Page 2 THE REPoRTER october 16, 2014 dotnews.com DOT BY THE DAY Police, October 17 – 26, 2014 Courts A snapshot look at key upcoming events in and around the neighborhood for your weekly planner. & Fire – Fiddlehead Theatre Company Friday (17th) DA: Dorchester boy presents opening night of Elton John & Tim Rice’s likely murdered by AIDA at the Strand Theatre in collaboration with father, who killed Aids Action Committee. 8 p.m. Tickets: $25-$45. himself Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at 617-229-6494 or online at fiddleheadtheatre.com. Destin Marcelin, 6, Student, senior and group discounts are available. died in a Dorchester Show runs through Oct. 26. apartment last month Opening night will when his father, Patrick include a chance for a Marcelin, smothered or free ride for new Uber Hotel plans major expansion strangled him - or maybe customers. The promotion both, Boston Police and is good for $15 off on open- at Mt. Vernon Street site the Suffolk County Dis- trict Attorney’s office ing night of AIDA. Use The current building Authority (BRA) last coffee, sandwiches and the code “Fiddlehead” report. boom on Columbia Point week. The news was first snacks. Marcelin then slashed when you sign up and could include more hotel reported in the Boston Bayside Club Hotel Uber will drive you to and his wrists, then plunged rooms if a plan by the Business Journal. LLC wants to build a six- a knife into his chest from the Strand Theatre Bayside DoubleTree The six-story addition story addition that would FREE (up to $15). Catch after opening the door of Christiana Rodi, Gene Hotel on Mt. Vernon would include 86 new allow 86 new guest rooms a Mattapan apartment Dante and Ta’Nika Gib- your ride from home or Street is approved by city guest rooms, a 3000 next to the existing hotel. son star in Fiddlehead work, or they’ll even pick to police after they had planners. The Double- square-foot restaurant The hotel has 197 guest tracked him down two Theatre Company’s pro- you up at the T! Tree would add a new and a ballroom, accord- rooms now. According to duction of AIDA, which • Also on opening night: days later. wing to the rear of its ing to the newspaper. the proposal, the existing In a statement, police opens Friday night at the Hop a Boston Pedicab current building under The hotel presently has hotel would remain open Strand Theatre. from local parking lots! and the DA’s office say: Photo courtesy of a plan filed with the 197 rooms and a small, through the expansion. “The Office of the Chief If you park in one of the Boston Redevelopment take-out café that serves Fiddlehead Theatre local parking lots Boston Medical Examiner has Company/mattmckee- Pedicab is offering fun, declared the child’s Sept.
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