Eight months after declaring an urgent safety declaration for downtown Boston, police, city officials, and neighborhood groups convened on Thursday, Oct. 30, to evaluate progress and confront continuing challenges.
“We want to give a glimmer of hope and optimism from where we have gotten and where we want to go,” said Rishi Shukla, a 25-year downtown resident and co-founder of the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association, in a statement shared with MassLive. The group hosted Thursday’s meeting at the Emerson College Theatre.
Representatives included Boston police officials, city councilors, and several city departments. Individuals in attendance were also chairs of other neighborhood committees, such as Beacon Hill and Chinatown, the St. Francis House homeless service, and Friends of the Public Garden, as well as leaders at Emerson College and Suffolk University…