A dynamic real estate market and public health crisis have collided in Boston’s Newmarket industrial neighborhood in recent years. Amid complaints about crime and drug paraphernalia, business owners are proposing the creation of Boston’s third business improvement district.
Property owners in Boston’s Newmarket neighborhood are proposing a business improvement district to provide new security and sanitation services and private transit shuttles to the area, which has become an epicenter of the region’s opioid abuse crisis.
Brian Northrup, Skanska’s new general manager of building operations for the New England region, is currently overseeing such projects as Boston College’s new recreation center, the Brookline High School expansion and construction of the new Belmont High School.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) rolled new resources on Tuesday to help residential construction companies address the opioid crisis facing the home building industry.
Massachusetts construction companies and labor unions held work stoppages at 50 project sites from Boston to Springfield on Wednesday as their industry attempts to confront a high rate of fatal opioid overdoses among its ranks.
The state’s trade association for commercial construction companies is trying to help the fight against Massachusetts’ opioid crisis, with a forum aimed at highlighting the toll the crisis has taken on workers in the industry and offering potential solutions.
Massachusetts spent almost 1 percent of total state government expenditures on costs associated with the opioid crisis in fiscal year 2015.
