Walking the streets of Nubian Square, it's clear a transformation is happening. Construction crews are busy building a new mixed-income development on Washington Street and the new campus for Franklin Cummings Tech on Harrison Avenue. These projects are part of an ongoing development wave in an area that some Black leaders have dubbed the next Black Wall Street, a growing technology and cultural hub in the Roxbury neighborhood.
Roughly 2M SF of projects from prominent developers like HYM Investment Group, Related Beal, Cruz Cos. and Richard Taylor have received city approval and are underway in the neighborhood. However, on those same streets, there are still physical and emotional remnants of the… Read the full story here. |