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Boston Ballet To Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 33 Issue 15 Thursday, April 9, 2015 50¢ Columbia Point building boom goes on in face of Olympics push Boston 2024 talking with stakeholders By Lauren Dezenski reporter staff Columbia Point – identified in January as the potential home of an elaborate, 140-acre Olympics Athletes Village if Boston wins its bid to host the 2024 Summer Games – has proved to be an increasingly complicated jigsaw puzzle for Olympics planners as existing stakeholders on the Point move ahead with plans to build out their properties. The village proposal faces a significant hurdle: Is there sufficient room on the peninsula to accom- modate Olympic facilities without demolishing or This lithograph shows the Southeast Expressway looking north from Hubbardston Road, with the Savin relocating existing businesses? The planning process Hill Ave. bridge in the foreground. Art work by James Hobin (1994) has been further complicated by delays in engaging key property owners and by conflicting accounts from the city and Boston 2024 officials about how Let’s consider the expressway, the contours of the village might change. Key parcels that Boston 2024 officials would need to build out the athletes’ compound as outlined in their our noisy legacy from the ’50s bid document have already been approved for other By James HoBin the expressway, a river of asphalt and rubber that uses, with several large building projects already reporter staff runs through several of our neighborhoods. Noise under way or else green-lighted to start this year. Dorchester is noisy. Close your eyes on any from the expressway is an underlying tone in the And while Boston 2024 organizers have sat down Dorchester street and you will hear the relentless texture of the sound that reaches to the far corners with some key landowners on the peninsula, they pulsation of human activity: chatter in a variety of of Dorchester. Closer to the source, the faint sounds have not engaged with others, including the pivotal languages, all types of music and become more winded, and begin to hum, like a rising Boston Teachers Union, whose current headquarters recorded announcements, slamming tornado. Right on top of the road, the traffic makes building on Mt. Vernon Street sits squarely in the doors, barking dogs, car horns, a thunderous racket that practically overwhelms middle of the proposed village footprint. airplanes, helicopters, jackhammers, everything around it. On Tuesday, nearly three months after the private police sirens, fire engines, boom Officially, the Southeast Expressway picks up consortium unveiled its bid to the public, the BTU boxes, firecrackers and other loud where the Central Artery ends, at Mass Ave., and finally got a call from 2024 officials. The call to set bangs, traffic jams, snowplows, continues to the Braintree split (8.3 miles), carrying up a meeting came several hours after a Reporter subway trains, garbage trucks, buses Interstate 93, US Route 1 and Massachusetts Route inquiry on Tuesday morning. and motor scooters, kids playing, kids fighting, 3. It is the only highway that connects Boston with (Continued on page 4) whistles, bells, chimes, babies crying and, occasion- the South Shore, and as everybody knows, it has ally, the happy inebriate belting out a song. the worst congestion in the region. The mother of all Dorchester’s noisemakers is (Continued on page 9) City’s budget plan: Work set to begin $2.86b in spending By Lauren Dezenski mayor cited to the city’s reporter staff current economic boom, on expansion of Mayor Martin Walsh the likes of which, he this week unveiled a said, have only been seen Neponset Greenway $2.86 billion budget for two other times since the the 2016 fiscal year – a city’s founding. “This is By Lauren Dezenski will offer details of the hike of more than $120 the third largest growth reporter staff construction process to million over the current period in the history of The state will brief the community, said spending cycle, adjusted our city,” he said. “We’re local residents next week DCR spokesperson Bill mainly through a 4.6 per- in the midst of that. Now’s about the planned ex- Hickey. cent increase in property the time, as we transform pansion of the Neponset Officials expect that tax revenues. as a city; we can’t forget Greenway into Mattapan the construction on the The proposed bud- what got us here.” and Milton. Crews are 1.3 mile link between A rendering shows a new bridge planned to span get— which must be (Continued on page 5) set to begin construction Mattapan Square and the Neponset near Ryan Playground. approved by the City later this month on Milton’s Central Avenue Image courtesy DCR Council —features heavy “missing link” segments will take approximately investments in the city’s of the riverside trail. 18 months and cost $14 benches, among other will be repaired this schools, parks, affordable A community meeting million. features, according to spring, Hickey said. That elderly housing, and will be held on Mon., The link will feature DCR. It will also be stretch will be open to the public safety. April 13, at 7 p.m. at a “canopy walk” over accessible to users of all public again on June 30. “This is a responsible the Foley Senior Resi- the trolley tracks in ages and abilities. Phase One of construc- budget,” Walsh said in dences on River Street Mattapan, a new “arched A section of the Nepon- tion is scheduled to be a City Hall press con- in Mattapan where the bridge” over the river, set Greenway at Granite finished by the summer ference on Wednesday All contents copyright Department of Conser- several small footbridg- Avenue, south of the of 2016 with further morning. © 2015 Boston vation and Recreation es, bicycle racks, and Cedar Grove Cemetery, (Continued on page 5) In his remarks, the Neighborhood News, Inc. Page 2 THE REPoRTER April 9, 2015 dotnews.com DOT BY THE DAY Police, April 10 - 17, 2015 A snapshot look at key upcoming events in and Courts around the neighborhood for your weekly planner. & Fire Friday (10th) – Boston Ballet presents an evening of dance and diverse choreography at the Strand Dorchester Theatre, 543 Columbia Rd., Dorchester, 7 p.m. The evening performance will feature selections from native, 42, dies Boston Ballet’s season and original works performed after barroom by Boston Ballet’s company, Boston Ballet II, Boston attack Ballet School, and students in the Department of A Dorchester native Education and Community Initiatives. Tickets are who died after he was $5 and include entrance to an interactive pre-show attacked in a Quincy event. Got to BostonBallet.org Science Complex officially open at UMass campus bar room last month Saturday (11th) – Franklin Park Zoo presents will be laid to rest in an engaging day focused on conservation and UMass Boston officially opened its state-of-the-art $182 million Integrated Cedar Grove Cemetery research thanks to the generosity of MathWorks. Sciences Complex (ISC) with a ribbon cutting last week. The five-story, on Saturday following The keynote address will be given by Dr. Jennifer 220,000-square-foot research facility, which sits at the entrance of the univer- a funeral Mass at St. Snell Rullman, Assistant Director of Conservation sity’s Columbia Point campus, is the first new academic building on campus Brendan Church. Keith for Snow Leopard Trust. For more information and in 40 years. Chancellor J. Keith Motley was joined by Boston Mayor Martin J. Boudreau, at left, was to see the full schedule, visit franklinparkzoo.org. Walsh, UMass President Robert Caret, local and state officials, and more than 200 UMass Boston students, faculty, and staff for the ribbon cutting ceremony mortally injured after he • Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Boston Centers in the building’s glass atrium, overlooking the harbor. “The Integrated Sci- was punched for youth & Families (BCyF), the City of Boston’s ences Complex on the UMass Boston campus is a beautiful new gateway to and kicked largest youth and human service agency, invite Columbia Point on Dorchester Bay where students, faculty, and the science inside Home Boston youth and families to “BCyF Summer community will come together to learn, collaborate, and discover,” said Mayor Ice Sports Warm-Up”, a free resource fair to help jump-start Walsh. The Integrated Sciences Complex ribbon cutting came just two days Bar in a summer planning. It will be held on Saturday, April after the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate opened on March 23 11th, atthe BCyF Tobin Community Center, 1481 UMass Boston’s campus. The university is also building a General Academic attack. A Tremont Street, Mission Hill, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Building, set to open in spring 2016. The building was designed by Boston-based patron of the bar, 42 The Summer Warm-Up will have a carnival-like architectural firm Goody Clancy, and was built by Walsh Brothers. The State’s year-old Paul Fahey, Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance managed the project. atmosphere with balloons, music, activities and has been charged with most-importantly--resource tables. There will also be murder. Boudreau died raffle prizes including $100 scholarships to a BCyF from his injuries on summer program. Most programs are enrolling and Eight Dot residents tapped April 3. this event provides all kinds of information about According to the Bos- what’s available. Boston residents of all ages are ton Globe, prosecutors welcome. by city, state boards in Norfolk County say Monday (13th) – Jim Vrabel details A People’s Mayor Marty Walsh appointed to the Animal Committee.
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