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	BRA seeks to block mosque questions - The Boston Globe
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority went to court yesterday to prevent four of its key officials from having to answer questions under oath about a deal in which a city-owned parcel of land was transferred to an Islamic group for construction of a mosque.
		BRA attorneys said the David Project has not agreed to pay for searching for the requested documents, including e-mails, and for copying those documents, a cost that could range from about $50,000 to $85,000.
		Lewis said the BRA has thousands of documents stored "willy-nilly" in boxes that are not labeled, a storage method he said was intended to keep the documents from being easily accessible and to increase the costs of access.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2007/01/23/bra_seeks_to_block_mosque_questions (734 words)

	SAND News!
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority has quietly reduced its housing projections for Fort Point, from a stated goal of 2500 units (all BRA plans from 2001-2005) to a newly stated goal of 2000-2300 units (inserted into the newly published 100 Acre Plan Final Draft).
		As envisioned by Cooper, Robertson and Partners — the planning team hired by the BRA to develop the Seaport Public Realm Plan, with conclusions supported by the Boston Society of Architects, thousands of housing units would be of vital importance for the South Boston Waterfront to develop as an urban neighborhood.
		In 1998, the Boston Society of Architects called for the “threshold residential development that generates critical mass of residents (minimum of 10-15, 000 residents, 6000 dwelling units...mix of housing types and range of affordability spread through the District).” The BSA estimate was cited in comments from SAND to the BRA in January 2000.
	www.bostonseaport.com /SAND/Archive/050128housing.html (800 words)

	Boston, MA Contractors
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is a program committed to the development of affordable homeownership and rental opportunities to all incomes, ages, and households in the city of Boston.
		The Boston Zoning Code requires that the Boston Redevelopment Authority review the design of real estate developments and their potential effect of the surrounding community and the city as a whole through a public process.
		Boston has made an effort to promote "smart growth" by fostering a Transit-Oriented Housing Program that encourages new and denser commercial and residential development in and near public transportation stations.
	boston.homeconnections.com (305 words)

	ESRI News - Summer 2001 ArcNews -- The Boston Redevelopment Authority Streamlines Mapping Distribution
		Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the United States' oldest and largest cities.
		Officials at BRA understood that providing dynamic online access to maps over the Internet could address both of these issues by helping clients inside and outside of City government to get the up-to-date maps they needed from their desktops and avoid frequent trips to city hall.
		BRA plans on expanding its use of MapCiti by supporting the public information needs of other City departments, such as community development, public safety, and parks and recreation, through GIS service.
	www.esri.com /news/arcnews/summer01articles/thebrastreamlines.html (1119 words)

	Right of Way Acquisition Company: O R Colan Associates Land Acquisition Management Company right of way representation ...
		Our services are provided to public agencies in compliance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (Uniform Act), HUD 104(d) and the appropriate state regulations.
		ORC embraces revitalization and redevelopment projects with the respect for the foundation work and planning accomplished by the local public housing agencies (PHAs), community leaders, politicians and the residents of the affected area.
		Our firm is nationally recognized as an authority on the acquisition and relocation guidelines under Public Law 91-646.
	orcolan.com /Services/Services.asp?ID=18 (457 words)

	Boston highway plan -- 1965
		This map is taken from the "Summary 1965/1975 General Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core" published by the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1965.
		Accordingly, at its meeting of March 11, 1965, the Authority adopted the revised text and maps as the official master plan of the City of Boston.
		That legislation, designating the Redevelopment Authority as Boston's planning board, incorporated a 1952 city ordinance which assigned to the City Planning Board a General Plan function.
	www.brorson.com /maps/BostonHighwayPlan_1965/BostonHPLevel1.html (458 words)

	Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The scandal at the Boston Redevelopment Authority reveals the bankruptcy of Mayor Menino's housing and development policies.
		The decline and pending (at press time) fall of Boston Redevelopment Authority director Tom O'Brien -- obviously necessary, given the BRA's and City Hall's deplorable insensitivity to the affordable-housing crisis -- obscures a far larger problem: the utter bankruptcy of Mayor Tom Menino's housing and development policies.
		Yet even as the BRA scandal fades, working-class and middle-class families continue to flee a city they no longer have the means to live in.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/99/10/14/EDITORIAL.html (787 words)

	EPA Brownfields Grants, Boston Redevelopment Authority, MA
		Boston Redevelopment Authority, MA EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic development to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields.
		A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
		The Belle Island Coastal Preserve is located in East Boston, a community that is disproportionately impacted by environmental stresses related to the presence of major regional transportation, commercial, and industrial facilities.
	www.epa.gov /brownfields/04grants/boston_dev.htm (373 words)

	Database of the Greenspaces and Neighborhoods in the heart of Boston
		This ambiguity contributes to a lack of orientation and sense of belonging and identity among residents of the neighborhoods.
		In 2002, however, the Parks and Recreation Department and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) consider Franklin Park part of Roxbury, and the police from a Roxbury district are technically responsible for patroling the park.
		The scope of the area was redefined in the 1960s when the Boston Redevelopment Authority gave the section of Dorchester around Mattapan Square its own postal code in order to break the sprawling neighborhood of Dorchester into smaller areas.
	ksgaccman.harvard.edu /hotc/DisplayIssue.asp?id=93 (1208 words)

	SAND News!
		In 1999, the Boston Redevelopment Authority appointed an Advisory Committee to advise on the drafting of a Municipal Harbor Plan (MHP).
		BRA assurances were made that private height, density and land use negotiations would result in an improved public realm.
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority agreed that the 100 Acres plan required revision — with consideration of past input from the Advisory Committee and interested stakeholders.
	www.bostonseaport.com /SAND/Archive/050615green/050615green.html (1929 words)

	The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
		In addition, Boston hosts a relatively large proportion of non-American citizens, a population that is hesitant to become deeply involved in its local community.
		Most respondents in Boston said they trusted people in their community "a lot or somewhat" - they trusted their fellow attendees at places of worship (88%), their co-workers (82%), their neighbors (77%), the police (78%) and the local store employees (71%).
		Boston is not unique in this regard - this pattern was true for the national sample as well.
	www.cfsv.org /communitysurvey/ma2.html (1099 words)

	The Boston Harborwalk:
		Boston's HarborWalk is an inviting public walkway along the waterfront, with parks, public art, seating areas, cafes, exhibit areas, interpretive signage, water transportation facilities, and a wide range of other amenities.
		The Boston Harbor Association works closely with the City of Boston's Environmental Department, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and waterfront property owners to ensure completion of the 46.9-mile HarborWalk.
		In 1984, the Boston Redevelopment Authority joined in partnership with the Harborpark Advisory Committee and The Boston Harbor Association to initiate Harborpark focus on the revitalization of Boston's waterfront.
	www.bostonharborwalk.com /about_harborwalk (450 words)

	The Boston Indicators Project 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Boston Early Education Quality Improvement Project (EQUIP) collaborates with Boston’s early education community to evaluate, set goals for, and improve the quality of early childhood programs.
		Boston Partners in Education builds corporate, university, and school volunteer partnership opportunities; their website provides news clips and program information.
		Boston After School and Beyond fosters learning among and between public and private funders to assist their efforts to strengthen the after-school sector in Boston.
	www.bostonfoundation.org /indicatorsProject/index.asp (645 words)

	Lower Mills Today - Early Revitalization Efforts
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority commissioned a plan, a year in the making, to turn Lower Mills into an Industrial Heritage State Park.
		While the community wanted to redevelop the area around the mills, the three owners of the fourteen acres where Baker’s once stood were divided.
		By 1979 plans to develop the mill complex revolved around a mix of private reuse, such as housing and small businesses, and public recreational use, envisioned as a Heritage Park with a visitor’s center, a history museum, parks, waterfront paths for walking and bike riding, and docks at the river’s edge.
	www.bostonhistory.org /bakerschocolate/today_early_revital.htm (543 words)

	ABC News: Piano Tower Would Give Boston a Lift
		BOSTON Nov 19, 2006 (AP)— A Boston businessman's proposal to build a 1,000-foot, 75-story glass-and-steel building that would tower over all others is a bold move in a city that favors colonial era church steeples over skyscrapers.
		Officials in Boston and other U.S. cities typically seek to rein in developers' wishes to build high above neighboring office buildings, but the sky was the limit for Menino.
		The last time a new Boston building of more 40 stories went up was in 1987, with the completion of the 46-story One International Place.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=2665752 (467 words)

	GSSW Links With Boston Redevelopment Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Graduate School of Social Work is building what one faculty member describes as "a new kind of relationship" with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, beginning with a series of meetings at Boston City Hall with city officials and neighborhood representatives on Sept. 21.
		In addition, the BRA will offer GSSW students placement opportunities to fulfill their fieldwork requirement and may undertake other joint activities with the school, according to Prof.
		BRA Director Thomas O'Brien and other authority officials will then speak on the major issues facing the agency and city, Iatridis said.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v8/s16/gssw.html (315 words)

	(1999 Preservation Revolving Fund Casebook : Property Entries Online)
		The City of Boston established the Boston Sanatorium, first known as Consumptives Hospital, for the care of indigent persons suffering from advanced tuberculosis, one of six hospitals created in the first decade of the 20th century to provide additional services for the city’s poor.
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority and Boston Public Health Commission received two responses to their January 1999 Request for Qualifications for Developers of the 27 acre site with 13 vacant buildings, of which 6 are presumably to be demolished, 5 to be evaluated, and 2 to be retained.
		Boston Landmarks Commission area form; Request for Qualifications for Affordable Assisted Living Care Facility prepared by Boston Redevelopment Authority and Boston Public Health Commission, January 1999.
	www.historicboston.org /99cb/sanatorium.htm (667 words)

	City Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) insists that waterfront development requires enough housing to create a residential community, and that new units will help lower soaring South Boston rents -- yet Southie is wary of gentrification and the outsiders it brings.
		Thus, when Mayor Tom Menino and BRA director Tom O'Brien were in a bitter standoff with Kelly over the number of new housing units to be built in South Boston, the hand of Moakley quickly settled the crucial issue.
		But given how many of Boston's biggest projects -- from waterfront development to a new convention center to the proposed Logan runway -- do affect the strong-willed folk of South Boston, that seemingly conciliatory statement might be little more than Moakley's way of saying he's not done yet.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/99/05/06/CITY_HALL.html (2352 words)

	Lambda Alpha International - President's corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Boston Lambda alpha Chapter under the leadership of its president John Fuller, as developed an outstanding program that focuses on the future of Boston.
		The Boston Chapter has also arranged to have the key people involved with the planning and development of Boston to lead the tours.
		The Prudential Center is located on a 23-acre in the heart of Boston's Back Bay, adjacent to the Hynes Convention Center, major hotels, shopping and residential areas, the Prudential Center is a 3.2 million square foot mixed-use urban center, comprised of 2.6 million square feet of office space and 620,000 square feet of retail space.
	www.lai.org /go/meetings/boston_exp_2005.html (971 words)

	Boston Opera House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Boston Opera House was built in 1901 on Huntington Ave.
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority, acting on behalf of the Northeastern University Trustees, declared the Opera House unsafe, and scheduled it for demolition.
		The Boston Opera House is also home to the Boston Ballet Nutcracker between Thanksgiving and New Year's each year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_Opera_House (655 words)

	Boston @ The Crossroads: A Series from WBUR
		WBUR's Bob Oakes speaks with Boston Mayor Tom Menino about the city, and whether it is at a crossroads.
		All of Boston 's neighborhoods have experienced an increase in immigration.
		Boston 's council members are learning to speak Spanish and may soon learn Vietnamese and Russian too.
	www.wbur.org /special/bostonatc/part4.asp (530 words)

	Boston maps
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority's Boston Atlas, is a mapping application that includes data from many city agencies, including the Assessing Department and the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, plus information from neighboring towns and the state.
		Map and descriptions of restaurants in the Boston area that serve brunch on the weekend.
		Eighteen historical maps of the Boston area from 1776 thru 1897 from the David Rumsey Collection are now available for viewing in the GIS Browser.
	www.boston-online.com /Maps (745 words)

	Boston Housing Authority - Orchard Gardens
		The redevelopment has been done in phases to minimize relocation difficulties and avoid disruption of the service and economic development components of the program.
		The Boston School Department is in the design phase for a new K-8 school to be developed on a portion of the original public housing site.
		The Boston Housing Police, a Special Police Division within the Boston Police Department, prepared a report entitled “Reported Crime in Public Housing 1997-1999.” The following statistics, comparing reported crime in the HOPE VI developments from 1997 through 1999 to reported crime citywide were excerpted from this report.
	www.bostonhousing.org /detpages/deptinfo39.html (2125 words)

	Boston Redevelopment Authority Seeks Proposals for Financial District Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		A mixed-use tower would rise on the site of an underutilized city-owned parking garage at Boston's Winthrop Square if city officials receive the kinds of proposals from developers they are seeking under an RFP that kicked off today.
		The Boston Redevelopment Authority will review proposals to determine the feasibility and benefits of any projects to both the site and city as a whole before picking a developer.
		A redevelopment authority spokesperson said several developers showed interest in the RFP today, but details were not available by press time.
	www.cpnonline.com /cpn/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002577478 (315 words)

	The Boston Harbor Association- Programs- HarborWalk
		In 1984, the City of Boston, at the suggestion of the Harborpark Advisory Committee (of which The Boston Harbor Association was an active member), established "HarborWalk" guidelines to encourage development of public walkways and public access along Boston Harbor.
		The Boston Harbor Association continues to work closely with the City of Boston's Environmental Department, Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and waterfront property owners to ensure completion of the 47-mile HarborWalk.
		In 1984, as a member of the City of Boston's Harborpark Advisory Committee, TBHA successfully advocated for the establishment of "HarborWalk" guidelines to encourage the development of public walkways, parks, sitting areas, cafes, public art, and other public amenities along Boston Harbor.
	www.tbha.org /programs_harborwalk.htm (3658 words)

	Center for Urban and Regional Policy, CURP Partners
		The BRA is the City of Boston's planning and development agency, with responsibiltiy for a broad range of projects such as clearing land for the new convention center, neighborhood development, zoning, community-based planning, and job training.
		The BSA is the sponsor of Build Boston, the premier tradeshow for the building industry in the Northeast, and "How We Live: A Civic Initiative for a Livable New England," a series of conferences and charrettes designed to deter sprawl in the region.
		The Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston is an enterprise of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; its mission is to contribute to improved governance and public policy in the Greater Boston region.
	www.curp.neu.edu /aboutus/partners.htm (2718 words)

	Letter from ABN member to the Boston Redevelopment Authority regarding Longwood Medical Area Interim Guidelines
		As several speakers mentioned, there was a serious disconnect between the distributed material and the presentation, specifically regarding the mechanisms that would leverage funds for the City and also act as incentives for projects desiring additional height.
		The opportunity exists for Boston to be a regional leader because of the economic value of the medical and educational institutions in the LMA.
		The BRA as a responsible planning agency must be an advocate not for reckless demolition but for re-use and stewardship of the older buildings in the LMA.
	www.abnboston.org /publications/2002/1230-lma.html (885 words)

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