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Rogers Park Phase 1 – Community Meeting 1
May 12, 2026 from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
The first phase of Rogers Park (30 Rogers Park Ave) improvements will include renovations to the ballfields, fencing, tree work and pathways around the park. The meeting will discuss site analysis and the next steps for the Rogers Park improvements.
18 Nantasket Ave – Abutters Meeting
May 12, 2026 from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
The development at 18 Nantasket Ave seeks to construct a three-story building with four residential units and five off-street parking spaces. The abbutters meeting will gather residents’ perspectives on the development.
157 Brighton Ave – Abutters Meeting
May 13, 2026 from 7:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
157 Brighton Avenue, the site of Harvard Convenience, is seeking to change its wine and malt license to an all-alcohol license. The purpose of the meeting is to gather residents’ perspectives.
1962 Beacon St – Abutters Meeting
May 13, 2026 from 7:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
An entity by the name of “Dunkin’” is seeking a common victualler license, which grants permission to sell food at a particular location, between the hours of 4:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. Despite being “Dunkin” listed as being on 1962 Beacon St on the City of Boston website, a physical Dunkin’ Donuts location is located at 1912 Beacon St. The purpose of the meeting is to gather resident’s perspectives on the licensing request.
Ringer Park lighting, timeline updates
According to project manager Nelle Ward, lighting installation work at the tennis courts of Ringer Park (85 Allston St), which is currently undergoing major improvements, began on May 6. Courts will be closed, but the contractor will open them when possible. Noisy ledge removal is expected.
Most of the park is expected to reopen in August.
1 Harvard Avenue, Great Scott development is in bidding stage
Following an update in December that its detailed design phase was fully underway, the development on 1 Harvard Avenue — which would entail construction of 130 rental units, retention of the existing O’Briens Pub, and return of the music venue Great Scott — has completed its detailed design phase.
The project’s team has now sent the project plans out to bid to several companies who conduct the day-to-day operations of constructing a building, called general contractors. The general contractors will send back to the project team how much they are willing to spend on the construction project. If the project team receives numbers from certain general contractors that are within their budget, they will proceed in negotiations with those general contractors.
“After we get the bids, we’re going to work with all of the contractors to refine the bids and make sure we get to the best possible number, and then we pick a contractor, and then we go out to the financing market,” says project principal Jordan Warshaw. “That’s the place where a lot of projects have been getting held up in the city recently, because it’s so expensive to build here, and the return that the equity investors that provide the capital for these projects want has not been achievable in the current construction cost environment.”
“We’ve been working very hard to create a building that is a beautiful building, but is also a building that is built and is designed in smart ways in the hopes that the cost will be at a level that we can actually get it financed”
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