Cafe and community space coming to changing section of Dorchester Avenue between Andrew Square and West Broadway

Rachel Lazar went earlier the Boston Licensing Board contiguous asking support to unfastened an 18-seat daytime edifice astatine 383 Dorchester Ave. that volition beryllium disposable arsenic a gathering abstraction successful the evening.

Her Cannonball Cafe volition diagnostic "healthier options than what exists successful the area" currently, her attorney, Tom Miller, said. That agelong of Dorchester Avenue is transitioning from concern and commercialized abstraction to residential.

Miller said Cannonball Cafe volition service meal and luncheon items betwixt 7 and 3 p.m., but is seeking a closing clip of 10 p.m. truthful that it tin beryllium utilized for assemblage meetings and the like, Miller said.

The committee decides whether to assistance the required food-serving licence astatine a gathering tomorrow.

Both the mayor's bureau and City Councilor Ed Flynn supported the proposal.