There is high praise coming from all sides regarding the “win-win” agreement of expanding the Eliot K-8 Public School into the existing North Bennet Street School properties that would also allow NBSS to grow its trade and craft school in the North End. Through a cash and building swap valued at $11.4 million, NBSS, a [...]
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Mayor’s Office Promises Plan for Eliot School Expansion by May 1, 2012
The Mayor’s Office has issued a letter to the Eliot School community, breaking its long-silent stance regarding expanding North End K-8 public school. The February 24, 2012 letter is pasted below and available here as a pdf. The letter is a glowing report on the turnaround story of the neighborhood school, specifically noting the improvements [...]
Update: North Bennet Street School and Eliot Parents Only Two Bidders For North & Richmond Street Buildings
Only two bids were received by the City of Boston for the North and Richmond Street buildings up for sale in the North End, according to sources close to the situation. A property swap plus cash proposal was submitted by the North Bennet Street School and a “public interest” bid by the Eliot K-8 School [...]
Neighborhood Council, NEWNC, Votes 4-3 in Support of Sandwich Shop at 139-45 Richmond St. (aka 188 North St.)
The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council, NEWNC, voted 4-3 to support a change in allowed use for a new sandwich shop at 139-145 Richmond St. The storefront and access to the shop is at 188 North St. along the Freedom Trail. The application was filed with the Zoning Board of Appeal by David Veo [...]
Groundwater Remediation Scheduled for Richmond Street
Update from the Boston Groundwater Trust: It’s February. The days are getting longer, spring training is only a few weeks away, and we have completed our first round of well readings for the year. The dry weather has had an impact on groundwater levels, with the average level in the core section of wells that [...]
Eliot School Parents Launch Expansion Campaign & Petition
The Eliot School Family Council has launched a formal petition and expansion campaign. The grass roots effort aims to “resolve our crisis of space” that currently exists at the nearly 300 year-old Eliot K-8 public school located in the North End. The petition letter calls for “a long-term solution to the Eliot School’s expansion needs [...]
BBJ: Two-Dozen Developers Tour North End Buildings Up For Sale
The City of Boston hosted two-dozen developers last week for a tour of the vacant pair of North St. buildings between the Greenway and Richmond St., according to Boston Business Journal’s Thomas Grillo. Mentioned in the article is Pizzuti Development, where John Henry’s wife works. Among the others who toured the facility or received the [...]
City Chief Says Renovating Vacant North St. Buildings Too Expensive As Option to Expand Eliot School
The Boston Business Journal’s Thomas Grillo reports the City of Boston is no longer considering the former police station and printing plant on North St. to expand the Eliot School. Michael Galvin, chief of public property for the Thomas M. Menino administration, said the cost to turn the shuttered printing department and the former police [...]
Has the Finance Commission Reconsidered Its Position on Eliot School Move to North Street?
Despite a 2010 letter imploring the City of Boston to sell the vacant buildings on North Street to the highest bidder, the Boston Business Journal is reporting that the Boston Finance Commission has reconsidered its position. The report comes from an interview by the BBJ’s Thomas Grillo with FinCom’s Executive Director, Matt Cahill. “The city [...]
NEWRA Releases Letter on North End Schools
The Executive Committee of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association sent out a notice on Wednesday, June 8th with their recent letter regarding the expansion of the Eliot School and the North Bennet Street School, both located in the North End. The NEWRA message is shown below. On May 19, NEWRA sent a letter [...]
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