“Over 50 Chinatown community members walked out of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s fifth and final public meeting on the sale and redevelopment of Parcels 25 and 26”

July, 1, 2016 – Sampan

By the Chinese Progressive Association and the Asian Community Development Corporation

Yesterday evening starting at 6pm, MassDOT, along with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, held its fifth and final public meeting at the State Transportation building, where it unveiled the final guidelines and Invitation to Bid on Parcels 25 and 26. The Chinatown community has dedicated countless hours attending all five meetings and submitting oral and written comments during and after each meeting. The Chinatown community has patiently followed along with MassDOT’s public process, repeating the community’s needs time and time again. MassDOT has failed to respond in good faith and as a result the Chinatown community felt it had exhausted its options and was compelled to walk out en masse.

“蒸汽廠地段開發可能影響華埠公園前景”

2016-06-10 – 舢舨

關於尼倫街公眾地段的公聽會6月7日在交通大樓舉行。地點包括黃述沾紀念公園、尼倫街185號麻州交通署第6區辦公室和尼倫街165號Veolia能源蒸汽廠。

這是陳述麻州交通署方針的第四場公聽會和對麻州交通署25和26號地段，即地區辦公室和蒸汽廠將來潛在再開發的招標。

黃述沾紀念公園是華埠少數露天場所之一。此處定期舉行台山華人移民發起的街頭運動九人排球賽。1930年代開始成立巡迴賽，如今當地球隊有波城洪青隊、波士頓劍虹隊和波士頓安良颱風隊。

“Veolia steam plant development could affect Chinatown park”

June, 10, 206 – Sampan

A community meeting about public land parcels on Kneeland Street took place June 7 at the Transportation Building. The site includes the Reggie Wong Memorial Park, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) District 6 Office at 185 Kneeland Street and the Veolia Energy steam power plant at 165 Kneeland Street.

The meeting was the fourth community meeting to present MassDOT guidelines and the Invitation to Bid (ITB) for potential redevelopment of MassDOT Parcel 25 and Parcel 26, respectively the district office and steam power plant.

Reggie Wong Memorial Park is one of Chinatown’s few open spaces. It hosts nine-man volleyball tournaments regularly, a street sport developed by Chinese immigrants with roots in Toishan. A traveling tournament was formed in the 1930s. Local teams today include the Chinese Freemasons, the Boston Knights and the Boston Hurricanes.

“What does the future hold for this Chinatown park?”

June, 5, 2016 – Boston Globe

Volleyball games are a summertime staple at Reggie Wong Park in Chinatown. The park and the surrounding block are being sold by the state to developers.

They come a couple of evenings a week every summer, teenagers from Brighton, Malden, Quincy, and nearby Chinatown, to a volleyball court at the foot of an old steam plant by the Southeast Expressway.

They come to learn a sport that’s been native to this neighborhood for decades: Nine-man volleyball, a city version of the beach game created by restaurant workers in the 1930s and still played in Chinatowns up and down the East Coast, by new immigrants and established club teams such as the Boston Knights and the Chinese Freemasons.

But this summer, the future of the game’s home turf in Boston is cloudy.

“Long shadows create political hurdle for S.F. skyscraper project”

Apr. 28, 2016 – San Francisco Chronicle

The elderly Chinese men and women who gather each morning in Portsmouth Square for their tai chi routines would seem to have little to do with a proposed hotel, office and condo complex a half-mile away at First and Mission streets.

But in compact San Francisco, where high end and low end mingle cheek by jowl, the shadows that the proposed 2 million-square-foot Oceanwide Center at 50 First St. would cast on two Chinatown open spaces have emerged as the biggest political hurdle to the approval of what would probably be downtown San Francisco’s last mega-project.