GentriWatch: BRA Unanimously Votes to Keep Urban Renewal Going

“TRUTH BE TOLD, and you may be shocked, but there is some animosity out there,” said Corey Zehngebot, a senior urban designer at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, as she made the agency’s case for retaining its controversial urban renewal power at Thursday’s meeting of the board of directors.”

“The board’s unanimous vote in favor of the 10-year extension follows an extensive public relations campaign, including a first of its kind apology from director Brian Golden for the decimation of Boston’s West End in the agency’s “slum-busting” days, to a number of public forums of urban renewal, to a BRA-curated exhibit in the West End Museum, a collaboration never thought likely.”