This Month in History: The Forest Hills Disaster
One of America’s first rail disasters to be covered nation-wide killed 38 people but sparked significant homebuyer interest in what was then bucolic countryside.
Affordability Goals Slow to Influence JP/Rox Development
Two years after the Boston Planning and Development Agency approved the JP/Rox Plan guidelines, the program has neither sparked a massive building boom nor drastic changes in how private and nonprofit developers are designing and financing projects.
MBTA Eyes Short-Term, Long-Term Orange Line Fixes
Riders frustrated with long waits between trains and crowded cars on the Orange Line can look forward to 2019, when the MBTA expects to begin putting its new Orange Line cars in service and boost capacity by 40 percent.
JP Multifamily Proposal Would Exceed Affordable Guidelines
The latest in a series of multifamily developments near the MBTA’s Forest Hills station would add 260 apartments and townhouses to a 2.1-acre site at Washington Street and Arborway.
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