BOSTON – Seagulls fly through the air as trucks drive in and out of the lots around one-story buildings that form a triangle. In the middle, a dumping site creates an unpleasant accent, with garbage strewn about.
Welcome to Boston's Newmarket district. Inside these industrial buildings are dozens of food-processing, manufacturing and supply companies, providing a vital source of jobs to local residents and products for Boston and nearby communities.
BOSTON – Working toward offsetting a housing crunch that has rents soaring, the city awarded $28 million in funding to help finance more than 800 new housing units, drawing from developers' linkage fees and a mix of federal and local money, according to a statement Tuesday from Mayor Marty Walsh.
The financing is expected to spur $323 million in public and private residential investments, and will create 125 units for "homeless or extremely low-income families," the statement said.
