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74-608: Bayside Mall was built in 1967 by Family City Development. Originally featuring Zayre , Almy's , Woolworth , and Stop & Shop as its major tenants. The center suffered greatly from high crime and poor sales among its stores, causing Almy's and many of the other stores to close in 1972, and the rest to close in 1973. A $ 15 million development plan launched in 1982 began converting the property to Bayside Expo Center. Bayside Expo Center officially opened for business in January 1983. In January 2008, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino appointed

148-641: A majority-minority enrollment), noting that comparable development around the Georgia Tech main campus in Midtown Atlanta led to a $ 1 billion increase in sponsored research. According to the UMass Boston Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning, 69 percent of the 3,215 non-international students enrolled in the university's College of Science and Mathematics during the 2021–2022 academic year were nonwhite, biology

222-423: A $ 185 million reserve against its Ames preferred stock and contingent lease liabilities on former Zayre stores as a result of Ames' announcement of continued poor performance. That same month, Ames filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code . By 1990, all Zayre stores had been closed or converted into Ames stores, and what had once been America's fifth largest discount retailer

296-721: A $ 26.7 million commitment to with $ 17.7 million reserved for constructing a new layout of Mount Vernon Street). In July 2021, Accordia Partners made a $ 10 million commitment in matching funds to the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance to assist nearby first-generation homebuyers in making down payments , while the Morrissey Boulevard-Kosciuszko Circle study received its funding from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and

370-799: A 15-member task force to develop a 25-year master plan for the Columbia Point neighborhood with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). In January 2009, the BRA held public meetings for the Columbia Point master plan. UMass Boston acquired the Bayside Expo Center property in 2010. In June 2011, the BRA approved the 25-year master plan for Columbia Point with the support of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association. In 2015,

444-723: A 25-person community advisory committee held the first of six meetings scheduled through the following December to review the Bay City development proposal, and in the same month, the Walsh administration released a 174-page climate change adaptation report for the Boston Harbor coastline in Dorchester with a section on Columbia Point and Morrissey Boulevard. In November 2020, the BPDA hosted a pair of virtual public meetings to review

518-426: A 6-month extension to the BPDA's Article 80 review process and the creation of a community benefits agreement for the Bay City development, reiterating previous concerns about the amount of affordable housing in the development, the development potentially increasing housing rents in Columbia Point, and furthering gentrification in the neighborhood. In May 2022, a community group formed by resident activists delivered

592-657: A Republican. When the Mayor of Boston is absent from the city, or vacates the office, the City Council president serves as acting mayor. The city charter places some restrictions on an acting mayor's authority: an acting mayor "shall possess the powers of mayor only in matters not admitting of delay, but shall have no power to make permanent appointments." Three presidents of the Boston City Council have served as acting mayors of Boston for extended periods after

666-481: A careful period of initial growth through the end of the 1950s, Zayre began to expand rapidly. Only six Zayre stores operated in 1959, approximately the same time that Zayre's volume reached that of the Bell Shops/Nugent stores. By 1962, there were 27 Zayre stores open, with ten to twenty new ones added annually for many years afterward. That same year, Zayre Corp. became a public company and began trading on

740-499: A chain so quickly that within four years, it attracted the attention of the much larger Zayre Corp. In 1969, Zayre Corp. bought the Hit or Miss chain and began its exploration of the off-price fashion market. Zayre's timing could not have been better. During the recession of the 1970s, Hit or Miss's results climbed so rapidly that Zayre Corp. considered expanding its off-price upscale apparel merchandising. Zayre Corp. first attempted to buy

814-482: A new warehouse retail concept to the Northeast called BJ's Wholesale Club . The self-service, cash-and-carry, membership warehouse sells general merchandise and food at wholesale prices. The following year, the company acquired Home Club, Inc. , a chain of home improvement stores. While neither of these ventures was immediately profitable, Hit or Miss and T.J. Maxx continued to thrive. In 1985, Zayre Corp. purchased

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888-484: A petition with more than 700 signatures to Mayor Wu's office at Boston City Hall supporting a 6-month extension to the BPDA review process while Accordia executives issued a press statement reiterating various community benefit commitments the company agreed to make during the public consultation process over the previous three years. In August 2022, Governor Baker signed into law an $ 11 billion transportation infrastructure bond bill that included $ 250,000 for improvements to

962-648: A specific political party. However, most city councillors have been members of the Democratic Party . John W. Sears was the first Republican elected to the Boston City Council, in 1980. Chuck Turner , who served during 1999–2010, was a member of the Green-Rainbow Party . Althea Garrison , who served during 2019, has identified as an independent since 2012, but formerly served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as

1036-452: A third of Zayre's store revenues. In the mid-1960s, Zayre bought out many of these firms, leaving only a handful of departments as leased operations. Zayre stores featured frequent flashing light 15-minute specials with live/recorded public address announcements meant to build excitement and drive traffic to specific departments, similar to Kmart ’s Blue Light Specials. Zayre's slogan in the 1960s was, "Fabulous Department Stores", followed in

1110-643: A voice in local government. Contention centered around Dorchester and the South End . Dorchester, Boston's largest neighborhood, needed to be split into at least two districts. A simple split in half would create either a north and a south district or an east and a west district. An east district would be largely White (75% or greater) and a west district would be largely African-American. North and south districts would have less extreme majorities. Many residents were opposed to both divisions, stating that they would increase racial segregation in Dorchester and continue

1184-431: Is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve. Boston uses a strong-mayor form of government in which the city council acts as a check against the power of the executive branch, the mayor . The council is responsible for approving the city budget ; monitoring, creating, and abolishing city agencies ; making land use decisions; and approving, amending, or rejecting other legislative proposals. The leader of

1258-606: The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) at a meeting with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce . In January 2018, the UMass System put the property up for sale, with initial estimates indicating that the university could receive $ 200 million or more from such a sale. In May 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department approved a request submitted by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker at

1332-882: The Chicago metropolitan area , Miami , and its home turf of Boston. Medium-sized Zayre markets at the time included Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh , Atlanta , Cleveland , Columbus, Ohio , Jacksonville , Tampa , and the Providence -area suburb of Warwick. Some of this growth came through acquisition. Several locations in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Florida were acquired through the bankruptcies of discount chains Towers Marts in 1963 and Consumers Mart of America in 1965. In December 1966, Zayre bought out Northern Enterprises, Inc., owner of four Shopper's City stores in Duluth , Minneapolis , and St. Paul , Minnesota , rebranding

1406-857: The Dorchester Shores Reservation and the Boston Harborwalk , and to improve the lighting, landscaping, bike racks, and security. In June 2016, UMass officials and the Kraft Group had discussed constructing a stadium for the New England Revolution at the Bayside site, which was cancelled the following April. In September 2016, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced that the Boston Redevelopment Authority would be renamed as

1480-612: The Marshalls chain, already established as a retailer of off-price apparel for the whole family. When that effort failed, the company hired Bernard 'Ben' Cammarata, previously General Merchandise Manager of Marshalls, to essentially create a Marshalls clone. In March 1977, he opened the first T.J. Maxx in Auburn , Massachusetts, quickly followed by a second store in nearby Worcester . The stores were an instant hit with customers, including middle- to upper-middle-income shoppers, providing

1554-547: The New England area. In 1946, the company doubled its number of stores with its buyout of New York City -based Nugents, another women's specialty store chain. With its store base in New York , Pennsylvania , Maryland, Delaware , New Jersey , and Washington, D.C. , Nugents was a natural extension of the company's market area with almost no overlap. By the early 1950s, company sales leveled off, and it became clear to

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1628-566: The New York Stock Exchange . Beginning in 1960, Zayre embarked on a program to open stores in major markets all across the eastern half of the U.S., with a presence in nearly every state east of the Mississippi River by the middle of the decade. The company opened new stores in clusters, so as to maximize brand presence and advertising efficiency. By the end of 1966, Zayre had 92 stores with major concentrations in

1702-521: The Acts of 1951, which provided for the election of nine city councillors, all at large, for two-year terms. In November 1981, Boston voters approved again changing the composition of the council, to 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. The 1981 referendum establishing the current 13-member composition of the Council did not indicate how the district lines would be drawn, only that

1776-712: The BPDA board approved Accordia's final master plan for the Bay City proposal. Zayre Zayre ( / z ɛər / ) was a chain of discount stores that operated in the eastern half of the United States from 1956 to 1990. The company's headquarters were in Framingham , Massachusetts . In October 1988, Zayre's parent company, Zayre Corp., sold the stores to the competing Ames Department Stores, Inc. chain. In June 1989, Zayre Corp. merged with one of its subsidiaries, The TJX Companies , parent company of T.J. Maxx , which still exists today. A number of stores retained

1850-528: The BPDA. In December 2021, Accordia Partners filed a draft project impact report that included an agreement with the Boston Teachers Union for 2 acres of land adjacent to the Bayside property where their current headquarters is located that will be included in the Bay City development. In February 2022, UMass Boston faculty members met with members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association at its monthly meeting to discuss mutual concerns about

1924-411: The Bay City development related to its potential traffic increase, its environmental impact, its planning process, and the amount of affordable housing units in the development (despite the ratio of affordable housing units in the official proposal exceeding city government requirements), and mutually agreed to express their concerns explicitly to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston City Council. In

1998-569: The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, and Boston College High School President Grace Cotter Regan wrote letters to the BPDA in support of the proposal. In July 2023, the proposal received the approval of the Boston Civic Design Commission, while the BPDA hosted a virtual meeting for the proposal where the BPDA announced that it would table consideration of the proposal until a BPDA board meeting

2072-445: The City Council has the following committees: The salary for councillors is half of the mayor's salary. Every four years, the Council votes on whether or not to raise the mayor's salary, thereby also raising its own salaries or not. In June 2018, the Council voted to increase the salary of the mayor from $ 199,000 to $ 207,000, effective after the mayoral election of November 2021 (term starting in January 2022); this increased

2146-482: The City Council is the president and is elected each term by the council. A majority of seven or more votes is necessary to elect a councillor as president. When the mayor of Boston is absent from the city, or vacates the office, the City Council president serves as acting mayor. The president leads Council meetings and appoints councillors to committees. Any person seeking to become a City Councillor in Boston must meet

2220-467: The Council in 1982, but Sansone did not run for re-election in 1981 and would not be able to vote on the district boundaries if the committee did not work quickly to present a plan to the council before the end of the year. Public hearings over possible district boundaries were full of heated debate between advocates of drawing lines to protect neighborhood unity and advocates of drawing lines to create two predominantly minority districts and give minorities

2294-474: The Council voting on the districts would be the 1982 Council, not the 1981 Council creating them. Then-president Patrick McDonough, who opposed district representation, appointed Rosemarie Sansone, a major advocate of district representation, as chair of the districting committee, but chose Frederick C. Langone , Dapper O'Neil , and John W. Sears as the other three members, all of whom opposed district representation. Both Langone and O'Neil would be returning to

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2368-514: The Feldbergs that drastic changes were needed for their business to remain viable. The Bell Shops/Nugent stores were suffering due to the decline of downtown business districts and to the rise of "mill" discount store operations. With the family's second generation, Stanley H. Feldberg (son of Max) and Sumner A. Feldberg (son of Morris) now in positions of responsibility, the company began to explore options, putting considerable effort into studying

2442-653: The Hyannis Zayre opened with 5,000 sq ft of retail space. The store was soon expanded to 7,500 and then 10,000 square feet, and was replaced in 1962 with a 45,000 square foot unit directly behind it. A second Zayre store opened in September 1956 in the Roslindale section of Boston , a much larger 39,000 square feet. Within a few years, Zayre stores would average 70,000 to 90,000 square feet. Longtime New York Times retail writer Isadore Barmash explained

2516-401: The Mayor the power to veto all acts of the City Council. The first council meeting as a unicameral body occurred on February 7, 1910. The procedure for electing city councillors was changed by Chapter 479 of the Acts of 1924, which provided for the election of 22 city councillors, one from each ward, beginning with the biennial election in 1925. The procedure was changed again by Chapter 356 of

2590-423: The Mayor vacated the office: In June 2021, the city council granted itself the authority to remove its president by a two-thirds majority vote. Should that action occur while a council president is serving as acting mayor, the role of acting mayor would be assigned to the new council president who would be elected by a simple majority of the city council. In 2022, the rule was removed. As of January 2020 ,

2664-574: The South End and South Boston forming one district, and Dorchester roughly split into an east and a west district. The Council faced more challenges after finalizing the new districts, such as whether or not district councillors should receive a lower salary than at-large councillors and where office space for four additional councillors could be found in City Hall . By law, Boston municipal elections are nonpartisan in that candidates do not represent

2738-434: The United States had reached 420, and sales had climbed to $ 300 million (~$ 707 million in 2023). Some 70 percent of its inventory was made up of nationally known brands. The remaining 30 percent consisted of standard apparel, produced by Hit or Miss under its own private label. With such a merchandise mix, Hit or Miss was able to sell current fashions at 20 to 50 percent less than most specialty stores. In 1986, profits of

2812-498: The Zayre chain, targeting low- to middle-income customers, dropped, although T.J. Maxx, Hit or Miss, and Chadwick's of Boston, targeting mid- to higher-income customers, continued to grow. That year alone, Zayre Corp. opened 35 more T.J. Maxx stores and 31 new Hit or Miss stores. Zayre Corp.'s off-price retailing chains had become so successful that by 1987 Zayre thought it prudent to organize them under one name and grant them autonomy from

2886-644: The Zayre name until 1990, by which time all stores were either closed or converted into Ames stores. Zayre was founded in 1919 as the New England Trading Company in Boston , Massachusetts , by brothers Max and Morris Feldberg. The brothers were Jewish immigrants who fled Russia to escape conscription in the Czar's army, settling in Chelsea, Massachusetts . An underwear and hosiery wholesaler ,

2960-409: The Zayre transaction was a problem. While the stock was entitled to annual dividends, Ames had the option of paying the first four semiannual dividends with more Ames preferred stock rather than cash, an option that Ames exercised for each of the payments it had met. The value of Ames preferred stock was dubious, however, as Ames was closing stores and experiencing losses. In April 1990, TJX established

3034-541: The center had been proposed as the site for the Olympic Village as part of the Boston bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics , which was ultimately cancelled. In March 2015, part of the roof of the building collapsed under the weight of snow during Boston's record-setting snowfall during the 2014–15 North American winter . In April 2016, demolition of the building began in order to expand the parking area, to build new pedestrian walkways connecting Mount Vernon Street with

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3108-570: The committee members praised the modifications, while Accordia executives proposed replacing the Kosciusko Circle rotary with a four-way interchange at one of the public meetings hosted by the BPDA the next month. Ahead of a public meeting for the Bay City proposal in April 2023, U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch from Massachusetts's 8th congressional district , Massachusetts State Representatives Daniel J. Hunt and David Biele ,

3182-437: The company began as a supplier to full-line department stores and specialty shops. Ten years later, the brothers launched their first retail operation, Bell Hosiery Shops (later shortened to "Bell Shops"). Within a few years, Bell Shops expanded beyond underwear and hosiery into women's specialty stores, competing with such chains as Lerner Shops and Three Sisters. By the end of World War II , there were nearly 30 Bell Shops in

3256-455: The convenience of home shopping. By the mid-1980s, off-price specialty retailing had become important to Zayre Corp. Hit or Miss and T.J. Maxx had brought in just 14 percent of the company's operating income in 1980; by the first half of 1983 these operations were producing nearly 45 percent of its income. At the same time, however, Zayre was renovating its discount department stores and expanding its product mix. In 1984, Zayre Corp. introduced

3330-415: The decreasingly prosperous parent company. In June 1987, just ten years after T.J. Maxx opened its first store, The TJX Companies, Inc. was established as a subsidiary of Zayre Corp., with Cammarata serving as president and CEO. It sold 9.35 million shares of common stock in its initial public offering; Zayre Corp. owned 83 percent of the subsidiary. During this time, Zayre faced several challenges. In

3404-532: The design of public spaces. In March 2022, the Dorchester Reporter published an op-ed co-authored by former interim UMass Boston Chancellor Katherine Newman in support of the Bay City development as an effort to increase representation of racial minorities in the Greater Boston biotechnology industry by creating a science park in proximity to UMass Boston (a research university with

3478-448: The districts be of approximately equal population and district lines not cut across city precincts . The Council created a districting committee to propose several different possible district maps and hold public hearings before presenting one plan to the council to approve. State law required the City Council to make a final decision on the districts within 90 days of being notified that the referendum had officially passed, meaning that

3552-523: The early 1970s with, "Compare... you can't do better than Zayre." Zayre was one of only a few stores to remain open 24 hours a day during the weeks preceding Christmas each year. By the end of the 1960s, Zayre Corp. diversified into specialty retailing. Among Zayre's early acquisitions was the Hit or Miss chain, an off-price chain specializing in upscale women's clothing. The first store, which opened in Natick , Massachusetts, in 1965, flourished and grew into

3626-507: The entire chain of nearly 400 Zayre stores to Ames Department Stores, Inc. In exchange, the company received $ 431.4 million in cash, a receivable note, and what was then valued at $ 140 million of Ames cumulative senior convertible preferred stock. The company continued to home in on its profitable new core business, selling unrelated operations. In June 1989, it spun off its warehouse club division, Waban, Inc., which owned B.J.'s Wholesale Club and Home Club. The same month, Zayre Corp. acquired

3700-409: The first half of 1988, Zayre stores had operating losses of $ 69 million on sales of $ 1.4 billion. Observers blamed technological inferiority, poor maintenance, inappropriate pricing, and inventory pileups, and Zayre appeared ripe for takeover. Throughout all this, however, The TJX Companies subsidiary continued to yield a profit. In October 1988, Zayre Corp. decided to focus its energies on TJX. It sold

3774-559: The following September. In August 2023, the Dorchester Reporter published an op-ed by co-written by Martin Richard Foundation founder Bill Richard and Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester President and CEO Bob Scannell in support of the proposal which stated that it was aligned with the aims of the joint project between their organizations to construct a field house on Mount Vernon Street. In September 2023,

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3848-672: The following requirements: Prior to 1909, Boston's legislative body was bicameral , with an eight-member Board of Aldermen as well as a Common Council made up of three representatives from each of the 25 wards in the city. When the Boston City Charter was rewritten in 1909, the Board of Aldermen and the Common Council were replaced by a nine-member unicameral City Council. All nine councillors were elected at-large for terms lasting two years. The new charter also gave

3922-404: The former Gaylord's store chain. However, many of the new Zayre stores opened during the 1980s suffered from cluttered aisles and messy appearances. Zayre began to feature appearances from celebrities such as Sherman Hemsley and Robert Guillaume in "Grand Re-openings" of their major stores, but even these events failed to improve their market share. By 1986, the number of Hit or Miss stores in

3996-424: The hugely successful mill stores. Mill stores began operation in closed, empty textile mills available at dirt-cheap rents selling mainly clothing, linens, and other softlines. As these companies became more successful, they began to build their own new stores, either free-standing or in shopping centers, allowing greater visibility along with the benefits of custom-built facilities. Having settled on discounting as

4070-474: The logical direction in which to take their company, the Feldbergs decided to forego the mill building route and launch with a newly constructed store when the opportunity presented itself. That opportunity came in late 1955 when Stop & Shop, Inc. approached them with an offer to build them a store alongside a new Stop & Shop supermarket to be constructed in Hyannis , Massachusetts. On September 20, 1956,

4144-473: The meeting called for the ratio of affordable housing units in the development to be increased in line with a proposal by the Wu administration to increase affordable housing requirements in city residential projects to 20 percent. On the 100-days mark of her tenure in office, Mayor Wu cited the Bay City development proposal as highlighting interconnectedness of concerns about climate change, housing affordability, and

4218-462: The origin of the chain's name in a 1985 article: One day the Feldbergs and Bert Stern, an advertising consultant, were casting around for possible names for the new operation when Max broke off to take a call. He ended his phone conversation with a typical Yiddish phrase: " Zehr gut ," or "very good." Stern repeated, "Zehr, where, we need a nice-sounding name." The men stared at one another. Zehr—"let's spell it Zayre"—for very good, they decided. After

4292-511: The out-of-use Bayside Expo Center sign, the University of Massachusetts Building Authority (UMBA) commissioned an engineering review of its safety and structural integrity by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) and a removal of the sign's remaining panels (after a 2016 engineering review commissioned by the UMBA from SGH found the sign to be safe and secure under the state's building code ), and

4366-577: The outstanding minority interest in TJX. On the day it acquired the minority interest, the company merged with TJX and changed its name from Zayre Corp. to The TJX Companies, Inc. The newly named company, headed by Cammarata, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company's transition into an off-price fashion business was relatively smooth, but the Ames preferred stock it received in

4440-471: The perfect solution to the heightening demand for quality fashions at reasonable prices with an ever-changing fresh assortment. Within six years of that T.J. Maxx opening, Zayre Corp. found another avenue to the off-price fashion market. In 1983, Chadwick's of Boston began to sell selected Hit or Miss items through mail-order catalogs. Hit or Miss and Chadwick's crossover operations allowed customers to handle products before ordering, and brought frequent buyers

4514-460: The planning committee of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association and stated in interviews with the Dorchester Reporter that they hoped to receive BPDA approval for the project by the following summer. In January 2023, Accordia executives met with the Morrissey community advisory committee to discuss the revised proposal (ahead of public meetings hosted by the BPDA to discuss the revisions) where

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4588-404: The political powerlessness of minorities. A more complicated split taking into account areas with large minority populations would create one predominantly minority district and one predominantly white district but treat Dorchester as several smaller neighborhoods to be divvied up among surrounding neighborhoods rather than as one community. In various proposals, the South End, due to its location,

4662-587: The recommendation of the Walsh administration that the Columbia Point census tract , which includes the Bayside Expo Center, be designated as an opportunity zone under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 . In October 2018, Mayor Walsh announced a comprehensive climate change adaptation proposal to protect the Boston Harbor coastline from flooding . In March 2023, after a metal panel fell from

4736-399: The report's release had been delayed until mid-2024. In December 2022, Accordia Partners filed a revised proposal with the BPDA that reduced the amount of floor space by 350,000 square feet, increased the amount of green and open space to 20 acres, and increased the ratio of affordable housing units to 20 percent, while on the same day the revised proposal was filed, Accordia executives met with

4810-731: The same month, the BPDA extended a public comment window for the project for another month, Accordia Partners executives stated at a public meeting that the 36-acre development will be LEED Gold , will include about 15 acres of green space and plazas with over 4,000 bicycle storage spaces (after stating at a public meeting the previous month that the development would only include 2,865 parking spaces of 3,600 allowed), will plant 1,000 trees, will dedicate 20 percent of non-research and development roof space to solar power production, and will dedicate 75 percent of its coastal boardwalk development (planned for 4.2 feet of sea level rise ) to pedestrian and bike usage only , while community activists at

4884-480: The sign atop the structure was removed and lowered to the parking lot below the next month while the structure's legs remained. In February 2019, the UMass Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 99-year final lease agreement for the Bayside Expo Center with Accordia Partners for approximately $ 192 million to $ 235 million. In June 2019, Accordia Partners acquired five buildings at 2 Morrissey Boulevard across

4958-668: The stores as Zayre Shopper's City stores. In Zayre's early years, the stores' product mix leaned heavily toward softlines due to the Feldbergs’ experience in fashion, gained through years of operating the Bell Shops/Nugent stores. As the sixties progressed, Zayre's product offering more closely resembled that of a typical discount store, with toys, sporting goods, records, books, health and beauty products, and much more. A number of these departments were leased out to concessionaires during Zayre's first decade, including linens, greeting cards, candy, and health and beauty items, totaling nearly

5032-495: The street from the Bayside property, and at a Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association meeting in September 2019 with Boston City Councilor Frank Baker in attendance, announced a series of public meetings to formulate a proposal to redevelop the Bayside property beginning the following month. In March 2020, Accordia Partners filed a 3-page letter of intent with the BPDA. In June 2020, the BPDA announced that it

5106-470: The tide gates at Patten's Cove and that established a commission scheduled to assemble later in the same year and issue a report with findings and recommendations to improve the Morrissey Boulevard corridor and Kosciuszko Circle by June 1, 2023 (and that will include multiple state agency executives, the Mayor of Boston, state and local legislators, or their designees). As of August 2023,

5180-474: The urban design elements, the transportation implications, and the infrastructure specifics of the Bay City development. In March 2021, the Baker and Walsh administrations announced a joint $ 1 million infrastructure study to improve the Morrissey Boulevard corridor and Kosciuszko Circle, as well as to identify improvements related to the Bay City development (which Accordia Partners has indicated that it plans to make

5254-537: Was grouped with either South Boston or Back Bay/Beacon Hill by advocates of neighborhood unity, or Roxbury by advocates of minority-dominated districts. Two days before the 90-day deadline, freshman councillor Terrence McDermott, who had been appointed as Sansone's replacement for chair of the districting committee, presented a plan to the Council which was approved 7–2 (the dissenting votes came from Raymond Flynn and Bruce Bolling ). Today's district boundaries are only slightly different from those adopted in 1982, with

5328-487: Was no more. These are banners used by Zayre Corp. before the Ames acquisition of Zayre stores: [REDACTED] Companies portal [REDACTED] Business and economics portal Boston City Council The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston, Massachusetts , United States. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councillors are elected to two-year terms, and there

5402-800: Was seeking nominations for a community advisory committee to jointly review the Accordia Partners Bayside proposal and the Center Court Partners revised redevelopment proposal filed with the BPDA the previous January for the former WLVI television station at 75 Morrissey. In September 2020, Accordia Partners filed a 187-page project notification form with the BPDA for a mixed-use development titled " Dorchester Bay City" on 34 acres of land that will total 5.9 million square feet of gross floor area laid out over 17 city blocks , and will feature commercial and public space as well as 1,740 residential housing units. In October 2020,

5476-483: Was the second most popular undergraduate major at the university (after business management ) with 1,336 students, and of the non-international students enrolled in the university's undergraduate biology program (or of the 1,276 students of the 1,336 enrolled), 71 percent were nonwhite while 72 percent of all students in the program were female . In April 2022, a UMass Boston faculty member, academic department coordinator, and graduate student co-wrote an op-ed proposing

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