Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ground was officially broke on the Assembly Row project Monday morning, after nearly 20 years of planning.
After more than two decades of planning, local and state officials broke ground Monday at Assembly Row, the mammoth retail and residential complex that developers and civic leaders hope will turn a long-dormant parcel of land along the Mystic River into a thriving, vital neighborhood. The most effusive praises were sung by Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, who gave thanks to a long list of local and state agencies, individuals and private developers for 20 years of diligent planning and hard work on the project. “This amazing achievement we have launched, that was so long in the making, and with so many essential actors and participants, really has truly national implications, and can be quite an example for the entire nation,” said Curtatone of …
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Foley St & Assembly Square Dr, Somerville, MA
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
At an emotional meeting, the Zoning Board of Appeals approved a controversial condo proposal in Davis Square.
At a meeting in which residents spoke of a changing community, an alderman got emotional and a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals broke into tears, the zoning body voted Wednesday night to approve plans for a controversial condo development in Davis Square. The proposed condo development, on land owned by the The Veterans of Foreign Wars George Dilboy Post, has been the source of acrimony for years. Ward 6 Alderman Rebekah Gewirtz said the matter has "divided the neighborhood," and in recent months it's led to hard feelings between veterans from the VFW post and some residents. At Wednesday night's meeting, some of the emotions surrounding the proposal bubbled over. "This whole process has been the most depressing thing ever," said …
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Veterans of Foreign Wars George Dilboy Post 529
371 Summer St, Somerville, MA
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The George Dilboy VFW Post's struggles with a certificate of inspection are wrapped up in a broader neighborhood conflict about a proposed condo development—at least that's how the VFW post sees it.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars George Dilboy Post 529, which was founded in 1920 and has been located on Summer Street, in Davis Square, for nearly 70 years, has walled off its basement game room with cinder blocks. At the same time, it's scrambling to get plans approved to build yet more makeshift walls in its function room—where Veterans Day ceremonies were held on Nov. 11—in order to reduce the room's square footage. Why? The short answer is that the VFW post, as of Tuesday, no longer has a certificate of inspection, meaning it can't legally host functions. It needs to either install a sprinkler system, which would cost $60,000, according to Ronald Patalano, a member of the post and former post commander, or reduce the facility's official…
42.39381
-71.11997
Veterans of Foreign Wars George Dilboy Post 529
371 Summer St, Somerville, MA
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Genie
10:24 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012
I am very happy, I am also curious about the price of the units. Genie more ›