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FOR DEVELOPERS IN BOSTON, IT MAY PAY OFF TO BLOW OFF INCLUSIONARY BUILDING REQUIREMENTS

Written by DAN ATKINSON Posted November 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

The building was finished in 2017. But when the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) reviewed the completed project, it discovered the developer had sold the units that had been designated for affordable housing at market rates.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 135 Athens Street, 160 West Broadway, Boston, Boston housing, Boston Planning and Development Agency, BPDA, BRA, development, fines, gentrification, Housing, inclusionary development, market rate, property, zoning

TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 12, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

 

Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE

An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable, boondoggle, Boston, BPDA, BRA, Column, corruption, Democrats, developers, economics, Housing, Jason Pramas, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, Politics, Republicans, ripoff, taxes, Townie, unaffordable

DEAR READER: ABOUT THIS BRA NAME CHANGE BS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 27, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

This name-changing charade is insulting, and only possible because so many residents either don’t know—or don’t give a damn—about how Boston is the last major metropolis in America with an urban renewal agency.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Planning and Development Agency, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, development, gentrification, logos, re-branding, urban planning

GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 8

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 21, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The terms of the essentially secret deal that led to this situation—brokered by high public officials and GE leadership with no public oversight whatsoever—are already being violated.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Business Journal, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, Charlie Baker, devbelopment, fort point, GE Boston Deal, General Electric, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Necco, The Missing Manual

GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 6

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 8, 2016 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS

General Electric brass, pols celebrate government giveaway while public opposition grows

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS Tagged With: #mapoli, Apparent Horizon, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, Charlie Baker, General Electric, Innovation District, Jason Pramas. Immelt, Marty Walsh, Necco, protests, tax giveaways

THE GARAGE JOB: A BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY STORY

Written by KEVIN MCCREA Posted March 14, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

If this story was about something salacious, and not a parking garage, then maybe more Bostonians would care about getting jerked out of millions

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, building, development, Eminent Domain, Kevin McCrea, Shirley Kressel, Winthrop Square Garage

WHY BOTHER? ON RENEWING URBAN RENEWAL IN BOSTON.

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted March 8, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Do we need the BRA or urban renewal for the city to reap the benefits of large-scale, complex development projects?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Ayanna Pressley, Boston, Boston City Council, BRA, Brian Golden, Josh Zakim, Mayor Mary Walsh, Tito Jackson, urban renewal

HOW TO SPEND $1 BILLION IN ROXBURY (WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME ON ROXBURY)

Written by DIANNE WILKERSON Posted November 11, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

CDCs have total control of who they put on their teams. In exercising this freedom, MPCDC and the BHA have chosen exclusion, and they’re not the exception.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black and Latino businesses, BRA, CDCs, development, Dianne Wilkerson, Dorchester, Dorchester bay, Dudley Square, fair wages, Jackson Square, Madison Park Development Corp, Mattapan, MPDC, New Day Services, protests, Roxbury, Tropical Foods

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE LAND BOSTON FORGOT

Written by RACHEL HOCK Posted October 14, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, Non-fiction

Hundreds of Allston residents fought in the streets to save their neighborhood. Now, after a series of land swaps, Harvard’s ivy vines are creeping in again. This is for those who fought, and who fight, for their homes.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, Non-fiction Tagged With: #ALLSTONANNIE, Allston, Annie Soricelli, Barry's Corner, BINJ, Boston History, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Public Library, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, brighton, cattle industry, Charlesview Apartments, Ed Logue, gentrification, harvard, IMP, Ivy League, Jim Vrabel, Mayor Collins, Mayor Walsh, Rachel Hock, urban renewal, Who Is Annie Soricelli?

FREE RADICAL: BID FROM THE DEAD

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted August 13, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Despite a resounding “no” from the people of Boston, development remains a top-down process guided by the city’s elite

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Boston 2024, BRA, development, gentrification, mayor Marty Walsh, Midtown, Widett Circle

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