ALLSTON—Some have already cleaned up: "Up and down the nearly one-mile stretch of Western Avenue, from the edge of the Harvard Business School campus in Allston to the Arsenal Street bridge in Brighton, others may be dreaming of hitting it big in what many consider the latest red-hot real estate frontier in Boston." [Globe]
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CAMBRIDGE—The results are in re: the city's latest participatory-budgeting process and guess what's getting paid for? New bike lanes, five water-bottle-filling stations and a faster 1 bus, among other things. [Cambridge.gov]