Old Colony Housing Project
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The Old Colony Housing Project is a 16.7-acre public
Location
Old Colony is roughly a triangle, bordered by East 8th Street, Dorchester Street, Old Colony Avenue, and Columbia Road. It adjoins a traffic circle to the southwest and Babe Ruth Park, a youth park with baseball fields, to the south. 42°19′54″N 71°03′02″W / 42.3318°N 71.050666°W
Across the street from Old Colony, on the rotary to the southwest, is where
Prominent residents
- U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch
- Michael Patrick MacDonald, grew up there and later chronicled his Old Colony experiences in his memoir All Souls: A Family Story From Southie.
- Joseph M. Tierney, the late Boston City Councilor and father of actress Maura Tierney of ER and NewsRadio fame.[2]
- Kevin Weeks, Winter Hill Gang, mobster and bodyguard of Whitey Bulger
Redevelopment
Old Colony is currently in the middle of a three-phase redevelopment that is moving most of its tenants from the original large multi-family complexes to mixed housing in newly constructed townhouse rows and apartment buildings that will replace the 1940s structures. Phase I, which replaced rows of brick buildings containing 164 units with 116 new affordable townhouse units along Old Colony Avenue and Columbia Road, commenced in late 2010 and was finished in March 2012.
References
- ^ Waller, John (2016-01-11). "The latest Boston, local and national news". Boston.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ a b c Baker, Billy (March 21, 2012). "Old Colony gets a bright new facelift". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ O'Connor, Ed (2011-03-02), South Boston Liquor Mart, retrieved 2021-02-15