Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, Chairman of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, announced the selection of the Boston Police Station Number One and Boston Printing Department Building / North Bennet Street School, in the city’s North End neighborhood, to receive a 2015 Massachusetts Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award. “The Massachusetts Historical Commission is proud Read More…
The Massachusetts Historical Commission has proposed to nominate the Police Station No. 1 and Printing Department Building to the National Register of Historic Places. Both properties are on North Street in Boston’s North End, near Cross Street and the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. The filing comes as MassDOT pursues bids for the State-owned former Police Read More…
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 Read More…
It was moving out day for the printing presses from the City of Boston’s former printing plant on North Street, as captured in the photos below by Bruce McCue. The equipment was recently auctioned off by the city.
The Boston Herald’s Thomas Grillo interviews North End developer, Matteo Gallo, about the empty buildings at 150 North St. and 130 Richmond St. discussed last week in the paper. Gallo said the North St. building along the Greenway with the small gold dome, could be a boutique hotel or residential units. The Richmond St. building Read More…
The Herald’s Thomas Grillo writes about increasing pressure on the City of Boston to do something with the empty buildings on North and Richmond Streets in the North End. “The Boston Finance Commission wants to know why Mayor Thomas M. Menino has failed to market two adjacent properties near the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Read More…
The Globe highlights the last day of operations, after 113 years, at the City of Boston Printing Department Building on the corner of North & Richmond Streets. “A budget crunch has pushed Boston out of the printing business, prompting the city to outsource the production of everything from business cards to death certificates to temporary “no Read More…