Boston (Mass.)

...a report on recent and proposed affordable housing development and/or rehabilitation projects in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood and it's sub-neighborhoods (Dudley, Mission Hill, Orchard Park); presents information for specific projects (name, developer, type of developer, number of units, number of affordable units, source and amount of funding including linkage); includes additional information together with an illustration for the following: Winslow Court, Linwood Court, Fountain Hill Square, Bartlet Court, Norfolk House, Roxbury Boy's and Girl's Club and Pasadena Associates; also provides information on the infill housing program in Roxbury, North Dorchester, and the South End, the Infill Collaborative, Inc., and the following Community Development Corporation's (CDC's) projects: Nuestra Communidad, Roxbury Multi-Service Center, Roxbury-North Dorchester NRC and Codman Square HDC; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...

...presents arguments to refute the charges in the complaint (which is kept on BRA/1358) concerning this development project adjacent to Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay and utilizing the air rights over the MA Turnpike by Urban Investment and Development Corp. (UIDC); these include the following: the Boston City Council did act upon the application with sufficient information to evaluate the environmental impact upon the city and its neighborhoods, the project will not have a negative impact on low and moderate income people and minorities, is not causing displacement, will further equal opportunity and fair housing goals, and would not violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the environmental planning is proceeding without substantial problems, etc.; supprots each argument in some detail; discusses proposed subsidized housing in the Fenway and the South End, gentrification, transportation issues, pedestiran bridge, parking, ventilation, turnpike ramp locations, landscaping, etc.; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...

...a submission to the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development seeking federal funds under the Comprehensive Planning Assistance Program for urban renewal policy coordination activities in the following areas: capital improvements, project management, financial planning, human services, transportation, housing and citizen participation and for the bicentennial celebration (expositions) planning as well as planning for land use, economic development, culture and recreation, zoning, urban design, etc.; includes budget estimates and costs, A-95 letters and comments, statements on citizen participation, equal employment opportunity, historic preservation and other legal documents and correspondence; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...

...a grant application proposal that involves the purchase and rehabilitation of the YHMA Hecht House into the "Lena Park Community Service Center"; presents socioeconomic characteristics of the area, justification for the facility, steps and funds needed to carry out the project, etc.; this item was in the BRA collection...

...The proceedings of the re-dedication of the Old State House; includes the remarks of Alderman Charles H. Hersey, Mayor Samuel A. Green, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and letters from Governor John D. Long and Com. O. C. Badger; appendix includes papers relative to the Town House of 1657, the rebuilding in 1711, the fire in 1747, report of the City Architect, extracts from the will of Captain Robert Keayne, and information on the lion and the unicorn, Faneuil Hall and the Old City Hall...

Orations by Mayor Frederick O. Prince and Alderman Charles H.B. Breck with poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.