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Plan seeks to untangle North End traffic as towers rise

BOSTON – Averting traffic woes in the area around Boston's North Station – as huge office, residential and hotel towers begin to rise in the neighborhood – is the goal of a city planning effort that kicked off this week. After an initial phase, a transportation consultant will be sought next

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Residents, developers, BRA work to both preserve and grow Southie

Home prices are skyrocketing in South Boston, almost doubling in less than 15 years. What has been a boon for developers, though, has been cause for concern for long-time residents, who fear for the loss of the town as they once knew it. According to a report in South Boston

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Boston drivers face costly crunch as parking disappears

BOSTON – For three years, the dilapidated city-owned Winthrop Square garage in Boston's Financial District has sat vacant, nearly a decade after it was designated as a site for a new skyscraper by City Hall. When the Boston Redevelopment Authority closed the garage, ostensibly for engineering reviews, it took

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Cracking the Code: Updating Boston’s zoning to unleash the city’s potential

BOSTON – Bryan Glascock, Deputy Director for Regulatory Reform at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, has his work cut out for him. Appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh in 2014 to be Boston's first zoning chief, Glascock's job is to cull Boston's 3,000-page zoning code and

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BRA woos City Council to extend development power

BOSTON – The Boston Redevelopment Authority's bid to retain for 10 more years the power to reshape entire neighborhoods took center stage at a four-hour City Council hearing Thursday. But the council stopped short of delivering the favorable vote sought be the agency to extend the life of its

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Boston seeks to rebrand a trust-challenged development agency

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

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How urban renewal drives Boston’s 21st century feel

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

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Red Sox deal for Yawkey Way rights flawed, state investigator says

The 2013 land deal between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Boston Red Sox that granted the baseball club – among other things – the right to cordon off Yawkey Way on game days was the subject of a scorching 19-page report state Inspector General Glenn A. Cunha sent to BRA Director Brian