The management team for the proposed retail marijuana business that wants to go into the old Milky Way spot on Centre Street will be speaking at two neighborhood groups in the next week.
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The once-in-a-generation planning effort that goes by the name “Plan JP/Rox” has started to produce specifics about what our neighborhood will look like.
“Connecting people with places” was the theme of the fourth workshop in the Plan JP/Rox held on Thursday at English High School.
Of all the workshops in of the planning process this was most egalitarian; low income or high income, hotel maid or money manager, everyone uses the sidewalks, the streets or some form of transit to get to work, to school and home.
State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, while adamant that she did not use her influence to cut through city red tape on a disputed renovation of her Forest Hills home, said Monday her architect admits he drew up the addition to be too tall.
Mayor Marty Walsh has launched the first city-wide planning effort since 1965. As anyone involved with the politics of development knows, these days projects pretty much get considered one-by-one.
JP Centre/South Main Streets and the Jamaica Pond Association are hosting a series of meetings to discuss what vision the community has for land use along the corridor. How many stories should most buildings be on the stretch from Eliot to Pond?
The would-be developer of 632-638 Centre St. plans to withdraw the proposal he has before the city’s zoning bureaucracy. Instead, Andrew M. Zuroff plans a project that fits within existing zoning rules. In city lingo, that’s “as of right.”
UPDATE: The developer is withdrawing his current plans.
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A major change to central JP that would bring rare residential units to the Centre/South business district has started its way through the city’s bureaucracy. The plan would raze the one-story building 632-638 Centre St. and transform the plot into a four-story mixed use development.
After hearing horror stories from City Realty tenants, a JP advisory board unanimously denied approval to a project the company aims to build at 38-42 Hyde Park Ave.
