Trowbridge Square

Election You Never Heard Of Heats Up

by | Feb 26, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (32)

Candidates Dolores Colon and Doris Doward at Trowbridge Square Park rally.

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Jason Bartlett addresses challenge candidates at the Hill Museum.

(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.

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Alders Accept State $ For Barbell Revival

by | Nov 14, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (6)

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The soon-to-be-resurrected Hill Cooperative Youth Services Building.

Plans to bring a former Trowbridge Square community center back to life took a big step forward as the Board of Alders formally accepted $1.5 million in state funds to renovate and reopen the Hill Cooperative Youth Services community center, formerly known as the Barbell.

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City: $ On Way To Revive The Barbell

by | Jul 11, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (4)

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Darrisha McIver outside the Barbell, where she competed in double dutch, acted in plays, and got her first job.

Visions for a revived community center glimmered in Trowbridge Square alongside the fireflies, as alders, city officials, and Hill neighbors discussed the future of the building that once housed the Barbell Club.

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Barbell Club May Rise Again

by | Jun 29, 2022 4:51 pm | Comments (2)

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Darrisha McIver outside Trowbrdge Square's former -- and future? -- Barbell Club.

When Darrisha McIver walks by the abandoned city building that once housed Hill Youth Cooperative Services (HCYS), she remembers jumping double dutch as a kid, staffing The Store” full of after-school snacks, and growing up to become a camp counselor kids looked up to.

She also sees a hope for the future: a rebuilt community center where neighborhood kids can build confidence and learn life skills, the way she once did.

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10 Hill Apts OK'd After Backstairs, Dumpster Debate

by | Jan 20, 2022 4:13 pm | Comments (7)

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Designs for 10 new apartments planned for 232-238 Columbus Ave. (pictured below.)

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A local developer won permission to construct 10 new apartments atop city-owned land in the Hill — even as land-use commissioners lamented that most of that building’s future tenants will have only one way in and out of their apartments, and will have to walk around the block when taking out their trash.

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Hill Affordable Housing Deal Advances

by | Sep 25, 2019 1:31 pm | Comments (1)

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LCI Acquisition and Disposition Coordinator Evan Trachten.

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232-240 Columbus Ave.

City plans to sell two publicly-owned vacant lots on Columbus Avenue to a developer who has promised to build five market-rate and five affordable apartments won a key regulatory approval, and glowing praise from the commissioners who granted it.

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