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Morrissey Boulevard: Soon With Restaurants?

Needs a restaurant.
Needs a restaurant. Photo: Squaring the Globe

The grim thoroughfare, currently home to the Boston Globe offices and not a whole lot else, could get much more exciting. Per the Globe itself, “a Boston developer has proposed building a $60 million apartment complex with 278 units between the JFK/UMass MBTA station and the Shaw’s Supermarket on Morrissey Boulevard — a potential step toward a more extensive development with restaurants, shops, and office space along the sparsely populated roadway.”

After all, those UMASS Boston students need someplace to eat (not to mention Globe staffers … the cafeteria there can only do so much!). ““That area has been a barren — I don’t want to say wasteland — but a barren spot for so long,” one state rep admits. We’d be happy if they just installed a massive dim sum parlor right off of 93. [Globe]

Morrissey Boulevard: Soon With Restaurants?