BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh, acting just days after the City Council failed to extend urban renewal powers wielded by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, announced a plan to refocus the agency and improve public trust in its operations.
The BRA's identity, mission and values will be overhauled under the initiative, which will include hiring an outside consultant to provide strategic advice, according to a statement from the mayor's office.
BOSTON – From the razing of the West End in the 1950s to the more recent Big Dig, Boston's urban renewal projects aren't points of universal pride among local residents.
Yet today's Boston, the city people know and love, owes its current look and feel to some of those projects. Even some of the less-positive developments can be seen as part of the evolution that made Boston the city it is today.
