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Isn't that the norm nationwide? A plurality of the black community overall have lean surburban for the last 10-15 years
Less so here in New England, people are moving into suburbs for sure. But also in equal numbers, they're just moving to smaller cities that are still quite urban
2015-2019 ACS has this for Bostons 10 blackest suburbs
North Shore:
Everett 18.5% black, population 46k, urban
Malden 18.0% black, population 61k, urban
Cambridge 10.7% black, population 118k, urban
Lynn 13.7% black, population 94k, urban
Total Black poulation 77k, all highly.
South Shore:
Holbrook 16.8% black, population 11k, suburban
Avon 18% black, population 4k, suburban
Milton 15.2% black, population 28k, suburban
Stoughton 15.0% black, population 29k, suburban
Randolph 44.7% black, population 34k, suburban(urban)
Brockton, 50.9% black, population 96k, urban(suburban)
All of these towns touch by the way.
Total black population ~72k. 45k of whom live in urban Brockton.
The top ten "suburban" destinations outside of Boston for black people are pretty urban. Only ~18% (27k) of the 149k black people in those places are living in true suburbia.
Multimedia artist, filmmaker and designer Daniel Callahan has been appointed president of the Roxbury Cultural District board of trustees. A native of the Boston area and Roxbury, Callahan worked around the U.S. before finding his way back home. He hopes to bring the same artistic support and inspiration that he’s received here to other artists and art organizations in Roxbury.
“We are based on recognizing and identifying Roxbury’s cultural assets and establishing tools, strategies, resources and spaces to elevate the community of Roxbury, not only as a living repository of arts and culture but also throughout the ages,” says Callahan. “Our vision for what Roxbury will become is a healthy and thriving ecosystem for arts and culture.”
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Getting the word out about Boston’s robust arts scene will be another part of the work. “Massachusetts is in the news a lot, and it’s not so much for its arts and culture — but it should be. There’s a richness here that doesn’t need to be created, it just needs to be elevated,” says Callahan.
In his personal art practice, Callahan debuted his first feature film this year, which was screened at the Roxbury International Film Festival and is working on a new piece about the dual crises of the coronavirus pandemic and the structural racism here in Boston. He also teaches at Emerson College.
Callahan says that many of Roxbury’s art institutions, like the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, feel separated from the Boston community, when they should be part of one ecosystem. That museum and other organizations deserve more recognition and support for their work. Community members who want to get involved can help source information for the database by connecting artists to the RCD. Board membership positions are also available, he says, and donors are always welcome to support the cultural cause.
This is a newer cultural node idea on Buffalo’s East Side, which includes historical sites and has potential for similar development in the OP: https://www.michiganstreetbuffalo.org/
I like this and think it’s good that blacks in Boston want to further create richness in their black community. I prefer this than people running away.
I like this and think it’s good that blacks in Boston want to further create richness in their black community. I prefer this than people running away.
Also worth noting this is in City Councilor Kim Janeys district. She is from Roxbury and is City Council Lresident. If Marty Walsh gets tapped into the Biden Administration she becomes acting mayor in a race that is currently between an At-Large City Councilor who is a Progressive Asian from Chicago and a Black City councilor from the South End, which is adjacent to Roxbury (representing Mattapan).
This is one of Kim Janey’s main achievement as well as the creation of Boston Equity laws surrounding marijuana and I’m is responsible for creating the Boston Cannabis Board. Her family has owned a prominent Construction Management Firm that’s active in New England since 1984. Janey Co.
Being acting mayor would give her an advantage running should she decide to join the 2021 mayoral race. It’s unlikely but a mayor from Roxbury?? would be ...disruptive to the norm to say the very least...
Bronzeville (southern portion) 43 Green Project- a combination of 99 apartment units (affordable housing and some market rate units) and retail space (6k sq. feet). Total cost is $100m( $35m going towards affordable housing) and is set for construction beginning in next June on the corner of 43rd & Calumet ave. Two of the overseers of the TOD are Charlton Hamer, Senior Vice President of the Habitat Company, and Phillip L. Beckham III, one of the two Principals of P3 Markets.
Bronzeville (southern portion) 43 Green Project- a combination of 99 apartment units (affordable housing and some market rate units) and retail space (6k sq. feet). Total cost is $100m( $35m going towards affordable housing) and is set for construction beginning in next June on the corner of 43rd & Calumet ave. Two of the overseers of the TOD are Charlton Hamer, Senior Vice President of the Habitat Company, and Phillip L. Beckham III, one of the two Principals of P3 Markets.
Nice project but jeesh that price tag seems high. Nubian is estimated at 126 million and seems more complex. and larger. But maybe it's just the number to get it through the permitting process. $126M seems low.
Anyways, I'm glad at least some black people see the need to redevelop the crucial Southside on our own.
Nice project but jeesh that price tag seems high. Nubian is estimated at 126 million and seems more complex. and larger. But maybe it's just the number to get it through the permitting process. $126M seems low.
Anyways, I'm glad at least some black people see the need to redevelop the crucial Southside on our own.
Yeah, it is pricey for just one building(granted it's a nice high rise plus retail).
Me too. There is a lot of ground to cover, as the south side goes as far south as 138th St. Bronzeville in particular is a bit underdeveloped to be close enough to downtown, and compared to its days of once being the city's most densely populated district/community.( I know this led to overcrowding, which triggered the development of low- income housing projects in the first place, but it doesn't take away that the 20s to early 50s era was the community's glory days and truly was a renowned black city within the city.). Bronzeville is the one part of the city I look forward to seeing get developed the most, being one of the original black meccas in the country. I hope that this project is one of many to come in the next 5-10 years for the south and west side. It's ridiculous that 90% of the TODs have been directed towards the northside, even if some of them have are in neighborhoods that have had sizable black populations for a while like Uptown (18% black) and Rogers Park (26% black).
Yeah, it is pricey for just one building(granted it's a nice high rise plus retail).
Me too. There is a lot of ground to cover, as the south side goes as far south as 138th St. Bronzeville in particular is a bit underdeveloped to be close enough to downtown, and compared to its days of once being the city's most densely populated district/community.( I know this led to overcrowding, which triggered the development of low- income housing projects in the first place, but it doesn't take away that the 20s to early 50s era was the community's glory days and truly was a renowned black city within the city.). Bronzeville is the one part of the city I look forward to seeing get developed the most, being one of the original black meccas in the country. I hope that this project is one of many to come in the next 5-10 years for the south and west side. It's ridiculous that 90% of the TODs have been directed towards the northside, even if some of them have are in neighborhoods that have had sizable black populations for a while like Uptown (18% black) and Rogers Park (26% black).
I've looked at the south side a lot on street view comparing 2007 to 2019 and the amount of decent looking structures that have been leveled is eerie. It's so neat as a landscape and the neighborhoods are clean and its like they're so thirsty to knock buildings down to keep it neat and clean which is cool I guess-but fill it back in with some nice development.
South Side Chicago really needs the infill Boson has seen in Roxbury and Dorchester
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