Before Covid shut down most of Boston’s music and entertainment economy, local artists already faced challenges in the form of limited accessible rehearsal, recording, and performance space in the city, despite it being home to a thriving music scene and an abundance of talent. Now, as the Boston scene prepares to reopen and regain lost ground, a Dorchester non-profit organization is looking to address those chronic shortages.
The Record Co., a state-of-the-art co-op music space, has its newly renovated headquarters on Mass Ave. poised to become a community hub for musicians and producers in the neighborhood and across Greater Boston.
The Newmarket Square building that since 2011 had housed a couple of studios and a small but diverse network of music makers underwent an extensive rehab over the last two years after the property was purchased by a developer who made an agreement…