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SOMERVILLE YMCA CONTEMPLATES FUTURE IN NEW BUILDING

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 22, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The search for a new facility is on

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: building, Housing, SOMERVILLE, YMCA

UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET

Written by ROB KATZ Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: building, condos, Curtatone, development, displacement, gentrification, Housing, organizing, SOMERVILLE, tenants, zoning

GENERAL ELECTRIC FAIL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 15, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Conglomerate’s woes throw Boston HQ deal contradictions into bold relief

 

What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if that once-secret deal cut by Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh in January 2016 goes south? Potentially ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: boondoggle, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Planning and Development Agency, Boston Redevelopment Authority, building, capitalism, construction, corporation, corruption, criticism, deal, fort point, GE, General Electric, Giveaway, Gov Charlie Baker, headquarters, jobs, labor, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, Necco, PILOT, PR, Procter & Gamble, public, public relations, scam, scheme, tax breaks

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

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