Groups pitch Widett Circle to relieve Mass. And Cass. impacts - Boston News, Weather, Sports

Groups pitch Widett Circle to relieve Mass. And Cass. impacts - Boston News, Weather, Sports

A coalition of Boston businesses and neighborhood groups kicked off a campaign Friday calling for creation of a recovery campus at the MBTA-owned Widett Circle, pitching it as a way to relieve the unyielding pressures of drug use and homelessness in the area known as “Mass. and Cass.” Leaders of the South End Forum, which represents neighborhood associations in Boston’s South End, and the Newmarket Business Improvement District unveiled a propos…

Move Mass. and Cass crisis to Widett Circle? South End coalition says yes. - The Boston Globe

Once floated as the base of Boston’s ill-fated Olympics bid, the circle is effectively an island within the city.

Groups propose new recovery campus at Widett Circle to relieve Mass

Although Boston still wants to re-open the Long Island treatment campus and the state is planning a new recovery center at Shattuck Hospital, both are year's away, say Mass and Cass business owners and residents, who today pitched the idea of building a recovery campus at Widett Circle - the isolated collection of food-processing plants off I-93 that few had heard of until the failed 2024 Olympic group wanted to build a giant stadium there. WBZ …