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BAKE SALE & FLEA MARKET FOR ST. FRANCIS HOUSE

The North End Friends of St. Francis House will hold our 6th annual Bake Sale and Flea Market on Friday March 19th and Saturday March 20th at the Nazzaro Community Center at 30 North Bennet St. The event will go from 8am to 6pm on Friday and 10am to 2pm on Sat. We will have all kinds of homemade baked goods and wonderful pastries and cookies from all of the bakeries and pastry shops in the neighborhood. We will also have Mary Romano’s world famous eggplant sandwiches, meatball and sausage sandwiches.

We will also have tons of great flea market items for you to buy. We will also be collecting spare change. No amount is too small (or too big). If you would like to send in a donation, make checks payable to St. Francis House and mail to John Romano 247 Burlington Avenue, Wilmington, Mass. 01887. All of the proceeds we raise those two days and collect ahead of time will be matched by an anonymous donor, so your donation counts twice as much as you give. For more information call John Romano at (617) 880-9901 or e-mail at patjr@comcast.net.

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ABCD North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center
Participates in the Annual Feinstein $1 Million
Giveaway to Fight Hunger

NOW THROUGH APRIL 30th

Please send monetary donations, gift certificates for food, or non-perishable food items to the:

ABCD North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center
1 Michelangelo Street
Boston, MA 02113
(off Charter Street - in former Michelangelo School building)
(617) 523-8125
North End ABCD Website

All donations will support our food pantries in the North End and West End that serve the elderly, immigrants, unemployed, families, and anyone in need. The NE/WE NSC’s tax ID number for your convenience is 04-2304133. Please call the number above with any questions. Thank you for caring about your neighbors in need!

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31Jan2010

Schopfer Pitches Floating City in Boston Harbor

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Banker & Tradesman interviews Kevin Schopfer, founding partner of architectural firm, Ahearn | Schopfer and Assoc., about his recent pitch for a floating city in Boston Harbor, called "Boa."

"Schopfer founded a company to market condos on Mars. He designs $100 million-plus yachts. His design for the new International UFO Museum is crowned with a cosmic wormhole. And he recently pitched multi-billion-dollar floating city designs for Boston and New Orleans. Boston’s would dock alongside Long Wharf, and contain housing and office space for 15,000 people."

With the Chiofaro Company at a near standstill for nearby Harbor Garage, Schopfer defends the timing of his proposal, "With everybody talking about the renewal and revitalization of Boston, it’s a good time to project this to Boston. A floating city is very feasible. What we need to do is approach them as demonstration cities."

Read the Banker & Tradesman interview.

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Boston Meet Boa

Friday, January 15, 2010

E. Kevin Schopfer is way ahead of other Boston urban designers and developers. As seen on Yanko Design (via UniversalHub.com and ArchBoston.org), he thinks Boston really needs a "Boa" which stands for Boston Arcology Urban Housing. It's a floating city that sits in Boston Harbor, shown below at the edge of Long Wharf.

Some of the "features:"
"It will be capable of housing 15,000 people distributed in hotels, offices, retail, museums, condominiums, and a new city hall."

Look Ma, no shadows! "Because of its scale, Boa is positioned perpendicular to the waterfront, preserving view corridors and general development massing."

Forget the Greenway, "the “sky gardens” will create a sense of neighborhood presence and support a range of sustainable initiatives. A massive park system platform (pedestrian only) will be more than double the current green space allocation for the waterfront of Boston."

"The foundation of Boa is a series of poured concrete cells, which are combined to form a buoyant platform. The grid of these cells serves as the foundation for the rigid steel."

"Boa is designed to expand the horizon of sustainability and will seek LEED certification."

"Boa’s design alignments have a unique relationship with the Boston common. What appear to be random projections of massing are actually fashioned as a vertical construct of the “common.”

Boa at NightI hear the Boston Redevelopment Authority is putting together an Impact Advisory Group now. Sign up here.