Historic Hyde Square

Construction underway at 266-270 Centre Street

Rik Ahlberg — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:58:34 +0000

If you’ve been wondering what’s going on across from the Jackson Square T station at the corner of Lamartine and Wise Streets, it’s new construction by the JPNDC. This project is slated to include approximately 35 units of affordable housing and several thousand square feet of retail space on its ground floor.

The project combined a [...]

Centre Street redesign to enhance Hyde Square rotary

Rik Ahlberg — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:31:25 +0000

Proposed Hyde Square Rotary improvements

At yesterday’s Centre/South Street Corridor Advisory Group meeting, consultants for the city’s transportation department revealed preliminary plans to improve Hyde Square’s iconic rotary.

The proposed improvements reclaim asphalt from the roadway and create two significant plaza areas. One new plaza is in front of 401-403 Centre Street (at the southwest corner) [...]

Creating private outdoor spaces

Rik Ahlberg — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:02:09 +0000

Creating some private outdoor space for the residents of the redeveloped Church is no simple task. One of the developer’s proposals removes the roof from the sacristy (the lowest part of the building in the foreground).

This would allow the developer to create a landscaped private outdoor courtyard overlooking the future green core of the campus. [...]

Save(d) the Rectory!

Rik Ahlberg — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:47:54 +0000

Have you been by the Blessed Sacrament Campus recently and seen the newly restored Rectory?

Thanks to a tremendous efforts by neighborhood residents, the Boston Landmarks Commission agreed that preserving the Rectory building was important in the site’s redevelopment.

As a result, the site developers found an acceptable way to restore the building’s historic exterior while updating [...]

Stony Brook Cohousing to redevelop Blessed Sacrament Church

Rik Ahlberg — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:39:38 +0000

Stony Brook Cohousing, a local group formed in 2006 to create an “intentional community” in Jamaica Plain, has entered into a deal to take on the redevelopment of the long-vacant Blessed Sacrament Church. The group is planning to purchase the church from the JPNDC and New Atlantic, the original partnership that formed to redevelop the [...]