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30 Sep Getting to Know Dudley Square: Getting Here

Dudley Square has long stood as a gateway to Roxbury and the surrounding southern neighborhoods of Boston. During the colonial period, when the delicate Roxbury Neck Road, now Washington Street, served as the only land bridge between Boston and mainland Massachusetts, Dudley saw all traffic...

26 Sep Boston Businss Journal highlights new HBI headquarters

The Boston Business Journal featured Historic Boston Inc. in recent article about our new Dudley Square headquarters: Renovation group relocates to Roxbury Boston Business Journal by Mary Moore , marymoore@bizjournals.com                        Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 6:00am EDT                 An organization that restores historic buildings to...

01 Aug Next stop: Downtown Noshing – The Boston Globe

The closing of the Borders bookstore has many lamenting the changes in downtown Boston. This Globe editorial highlights the positive things that are still happening in the area including the arrival of two new tenants in our Old Corner Bookstore building, Sweet, a cupcake shop...

13 Jul Chipotle moving to historic Boston building – The Boston Globe

The story of the Old Corner Bookstore continues to evolve with a new lease. Read more in today’s Boston Globe about the tenant, Chipotle, the history of this significant building, and the ongoing mission of Historic Boston to preserve our city’s historic resources in a way...

27 Jun A Sweet Lease

If the lines are any indication, the cupcake company Sweet is a new Downtown Crossing hit. Historic Boston Inc. welcomes this very saavy home-grown Boston business as our new retail tenant at 9 School Street. They?ve been expanding rapidly with stores on Newbury Street, in...

01 May May is Preservation Month: This Place Matters!

HBI’s Jeffrey Gonyeau and Michael Tilford hang a banner on the Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston Historic Boston, Inc. is celebrating Preservation Month 2011 by taking part in a campaign to show the world a few of the places that matter the most to...

03 Feb How to Move a Project Forward in February

This week’s weather has us thinking of one of the most frustrating aspects of construction in Boston: winter conditions. By that we mean not just the frustration of navigating icy, narrow roads, but also the significant added cost to a construction budget that will enable...

28 Jan HBI to Build Housing in Chinatown?s Hayden Building

We are pleased to announce that Historic Boston Inc. will create four new residential units in Chinatown?s historic Hayden Building this year. This reinvestment plan fully activates the 1875 Hayden Building and completes a 18-year turnaround plan for the building which HBI purchased in 1993 to...