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An uproar over a homeless shelter in West Roxbury - The Boston Globe

The controversy is another classic NIMBY drama. But it’s also about expectations, and the way that “the process” becomes an end in itself.
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A state contractor plans to turn a long-vacant nursing home at 5 Redlands Road, near the intersection with Centre Street, into a shelter for dozens of families.
There’s a good reason the neighbors might have filed into Emmanuel Episcopal Church expecting to offer input on the shelter plan, and maybe even to sink the project. After all, there’s seemingly a community-review process for everything in Boston: If a landowner wants to build a school or an apartment building, abutters have to be notified and invited to comment. That’s led to a culture of reflexive NIMBYism and maybe even a sense of entitlement — as if it’s just the natural order of things for the neighborhood to have a veto over other people’s property.
But you could almost see the realization set in at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Tuesday that officials from the shelter operator, Making Opportunity Count, weren’t there to ask permission. They were there to tell the neighborhood about a plan that, in this case, neighbors would be powerless to stop.
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400 Belgrade steel going up:
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The Porter Square building is going to be a hotel.

This one isn’t being built by Young Construction, so it should be completed before the heat death of the sun.
 

Landmark Foreclosure Auction Announced for 70-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex in West Roxbury, MA​

“Sullivan & Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC is proud to announce a rare investment opportunity: the public foreclosure auction of The Linden, a brand-new, nearly completed 70-unit apartment complex located at 199 Gardner Street, West Roxbury, MA. This exceptional asset will be offered at public auction on-site on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at 12:00 PM……..”

Landmark Foreclosure Auction Announced for 70-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex in West Roxbury, MA

Landmark Foreclosure Auction Announced for 70-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex in West Roxbury, MA
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100 Charles Park Road (121 units????)

(Interior demolition to the existing property was visibly & audibly underway, but no exterior changes were visible. Construction vehicles & materials were on site but may have been for 199 Gardner across the street)




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11 & 25 Heron Street (72 units)








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199 Gardner Street - The Ellery (70 units)

(Note the crews on site despite the foreclosure auction that stick recently posted about)




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235B Baker Street (Catholic Memorial - new standalone single-story building for two classrooms)




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Willet Street Extension (29 single-family homes)

(Homes on the western end of Sterling Street are now being completed. The foundations poured along Toucan Road however appear to been kept untouched since at least the start of this year).






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400 Belgrade Avenue (18 units)




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Billings Field (Renovation)




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1999 Centre Street (Renovation - new Trader Joe's store at former Walgreens location)




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15-21 Powell Street (former Boston & Providence Railroad ROW - 4 single-family homes)

(17-21 Powell on the left are complete; site for 15 Powell is on right)




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59 Chellman Street (New single-family home)

 
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11 & 26 Heron Street (72 units)






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199 Gardner Street - Linden (70 units)




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235B Baker Street (Catholic Memorial - new standalone single-story building for two classrooms)






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Willet Street Extension (29 single-family homes)

(The only two sites that looked to be potentially active were 2 Toucan Road and 17 Starling Street. The remaining foundations along Toucan were inactive and overgrown with vegetation. I could be wrong, but the building pace seems to have slowed down for this project).






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400 Belgrade Avenue (18 units)




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Billings Field (Renovation)




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1999 Centre Street (Renovation - new Trader Joe's store at former Walgreens location)






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1625 VFW Parkway (New car wash)




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