Opinion Development - The Boston Globe

Exterior of the Greater Roxbury Arts and Cultural Center, which is slated to open in Nubian Square in 2025.

Nubian Square can be the next Black Wall Street

Realizing the vision for this vibrant neighborhood requires focused, collaborative, and intentional capital investment from multiple sectors. 3:00 a.m.

A bicyclist made their way down the bus lane on Boylston Street between Exeter and Dartmouth streets, June 7.

No, building bikes lanes isn’t enough. Boston should also ...

Here are key steps Boston must take. 2:00 a.m.

Pawtucket Street Apartment Demolition in Little Canada in Lowell, 1964.

A neighborhood lost, a purpose found

We were touring Lowell with one of the park rangers when she pointed to an aging triple-decker nearby, describing it as a fine example of “an immigrant tenement house.” Charlie Gargiulo let out a laugh. “That was my house,” he said. 3:00 a.m.

On an evening in July 2014, passengers left the train around 10:30 at the Newburyport station, which is located about a mile and a half from downtown.

Letters

Newburyport cemented its woes by banishing train station to outskirts

When we consider our regional housing crisis, it is shortsighted decisions such as those that limit regional economic development. 2:30 a.m.

Water spilled from Boston Harbor at high tide onto Long Wharf and State Street on Dec. 23, 2022.

OpEds

Mass. needs a coastal resiliency action plan to mitigate climate change. Now.

The Commonwealth must act now by establishing a Boston Harbor Coastal Resiliency Authority that has a MWRA organizational and governance structure. 3:00 a.m.

There have been a lot of empty offices in Boston in the past couple of years, but the biggest hit to the city's property tax revenue may still be yet to come.

Ideas

All those empty office buildings could spell trouble for you and me

Commercial real estate may seem like someone else’s problem. But Boston is particularly reliant on taxes on those properties. 11:00 a.m.

Mayor Jared Nicholson in Lynn's Central Square.

Ideas

Lynn is trying to reinvent itself. Will inertia at the MBTA derail its plan?

The city is building new, affordable housing near the commuter line — only to have the transit agency close the station. 11:58 a.m.

Boston's office vacancy rate is painful but still below 20 percent, and downtown foot traffic has surpassed 50 percent of its volume before COVID-19 struck.

OpEds

Will Boston spiral into the ‘urban doom loop’? Not if we act.

Remote and hybrid work are here to stay, office towers are half empty, and downtowns are turning into ghost towns. Boston is less vulnerable but its relative security could pose its own danger: complacency. 3:00 a.m.