Changes in the all-affordable building proposed for 2072 Massachusetts Ave. didn’t change how the Planning Board felt about it, and members voted to affirm its endorsement of the North Cambridge project to the Board of Zoning Appeal, where it goes next.

Though the Union Square stop on the green line is expected to open as early as October, there’s no sign yet of elevator access from its neighboring parcel, which got its building permit Thursday and could be under construction into the fall of 2024.

An assessment of a long-empty triple-decker in Lafayette Square is expected to be complete within a couple of months, leading to a plan on its conversion into affordable housing for families.

The Cambridge Health Alliance, which serves a large number of poor and uninsured patients, had “truly a remarkable month” in March in terms of visits to doctors, chief financial officer Jill Batty told CHA trustees Tuesday.

A demolition application for a Strawberry Hill property lists it as “currently unoccupied,” but Ferahnaz Kahyaoglu lives there – and the owner knows it, if only from some of the several lawsuits she has filed since moving in two owners ago.

Citing the impending loss of a space relied on the arts community and its residents, the City of Somerville is looking at spending $5 million to take its armory away from the Sater family – also owners of The Middle East nightclub complex in Central Square – which has owned the structure since 2004.

The hyper complicated Alexandria Real Estate Equities zoning petition that passed in 2020 brought together recreational land the city has wanted for three decades and made room for an entire Eversource electrical substation. But one player says it was left out, and is suing.

For several days the government assured shuttered entertainment venues that it aimed to reopen its broken relief grant portal ”by the end of the week of April 18” – but there were no updates offered until a tweet late Thursday saying to expect a Saturday restart.

The city released its long-awaited, 279-page digital equity study Tuesday, publicizing it with nine recommended strategies – including as No. 7 to “develop a strategy that explores municipal and other options for increasing broadband competition” – and an emphasis on existing market solutions.

Cambridge Health Alliance nurses are demonstrating in Cambridge, Somerville and Everett holding signs saying they’ve gone from “Heroes to Zeros” in contract negotiations with the health care system.