City PlanningNew BostonUrban Renewal Garden apartment proposal, from the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s “Urban Renewal in Mattapan,” 1962 (Boston Public Library).

The Mattapan Project: Urban Renewal That Never Happened

The Mattapan Project was first mentioned by the Boston Housing Authority in 1952 and later by the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1962 as a possible urban renewal project. Despite the preliminary planning funding being granted in 1963 and the urban renewal application prepared in 1964, the project was dropped by the City of Boston. The delays in the Mattapan Project’s site development and the eventual abandonment of the plan helps to demonstrate the changes in public opinion on urban renewal projects of the time.

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City PlanningModernUrban Renewal Photograph of the front of a U-shaped, 10-story, brick and masonry building with windows lining each floor. The building is at a city intersection and surrounded by lamp posts.

West End Place

West End Place, the mixed-income condominium complex on Staniford Street, is the home of The West End Museum. West End Place, like the Museum, owes its existence to the dedicated activism of displaced former residents who hoped to right the wrongs of urban renewal.

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