On Wednesday morning, Mayor Marty Walsh submitted his budget proposal before the Boston City Council. In it, he hopes to create a number of new initiatives for Bostonians to enjoy, one of which he’ll announce later Wednesday afternoon in the Roxbury-Dorchester area. Aptly called Wicked Free Wi-Fi, the mayor intends to bring a free public Wi-Fi network to the Grove Hall area of the neighborhood.

According to the Boston Globe, the network is expected to span a 1.5 square mile area so that individuals with wireless devices can enjoy free connectivity in the increasingly more temperate weather.

Back in 2013, while still hitting the campaign trail, Mayor Walsh made a promise to bring all of Boston’s neighborhoods further into the Digital Age by expanding the reach of wireless service and, in the necessary cases, enable those unable to carry Wi-Fi to do so.

He also laid plans to build a number of neighborhoods more tech-driven, ŕ la the Innovation District. But it wasn’t downtown that he envisioned this new innovation landscape, but the outskirt neighborhoods like Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Dorchester and Roxbury.

In Roxbury’s Dudley Square, revitalization has already taken place. The commercial hub of the area has since been targeted by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to bolster industrial and high-tech manufacturing industries which could snowball into tech and innovation jobs.

“We are launching this in a neighborhood where there’s not a lot of access to Wi-Fi,” Mayor Walsh told the Globe prior to his announcement and budget proposal submission. “There are certain parts of the city where service just goes down.”

The number of Boston’s public Wi-Fi spots are perpetually growing. We reported on a handful of these spots back in 2013 but a bevy of others have since been added to the list.

The Globe notes further that the idea for bringing Wi-Fi to Grove Hall was conceived during longtime Mayor Tom Menino’s administration, courtesy of a a $20.5 million federal grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development specific to municipal redevelopment projects.

With this framework from the Menino administration coupled with Mayor Walsh’s growing penchant for new technologies, the tech landscapes of Boston’s neighborhoods is poised to change for the better. Students need a sturdy internet connection to do their schoolwork, telecommuters need it to adequately perform their day-to-day duties and, of course, people simply want the ability to surf the web.

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