David Jonathan Ross designs typefaces. Since 2017, he's been refining one he calls Roslindale, in honor of the uniquely named neighborhood. Read more.
Business
By adamg - 10/15/21 - 1:46 pm
Work on a long unused parking lot between the Waves car wash and the McDonald's on VFW Parkway northbound, on the stretch that feels like Dedham but is really West Roxbury, is to clear space so the car wash can add a second drive-through tunnel and more vacuums, according to permits issued over the past few months by ISD.
By adamg - 10/15/21 - 12:44 pm
The patented case.
Four Boston police officers who formed a company to sell cases that officers can use to more easily carry doses of Narcan spray are now battling in two courts over who should profit from the company's sales. Read more.
By adamg - 10/14/21 - 10:15 pm
Boston Real Estate Times reports what's going on around here to cause all those developers to propose life-sciences projects:
Capitalizing on limited available space in the near term, property owners continue to seek and achieve record high rents. ... In East Cambridge, where two ground-up projects are underway with availability, asking rents have climbed 23.9% in the last 24 months. Asking rents in Boston have also reached triple digits, ending the quarter at $100 per sq. ft.
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By adamg - 10/1/21 - 4:06 pm
Rendering of the enlaged house. "Barn" on left is a dining pavillion. Via Wellesley Planning Department.
A Wellesley Hills couple is suing their now former architect for what they say are more than $15.5 million in overruns and years of delays on extensions and upgrades to their current home, a mess they say left them fuming and their tony street with a rather unseemly large hole with incorrectly placed concrete supports and structural walls. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/21 - 11:35 am
Percelay: Says he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
After listening to numerous residents of the South End's Concord Square neighborhood complain about drug dealing, people on the front steps passed out on the front steps or angrily shouting at nearby residents, broken glass and cigarette butts tossed into neighboring yards, the CEO of the company that now owns the 16-room lodging house at 44 Concord Sq. declared himself stunned - and vowed to get to the bottom of it all. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/21 - 10:09 am
BC students scattered like mice when state alcohol inspectors walked into their party at Servia on State Street one April night, but inspectors were able to interview enough of them for a hearing that means the Middle Eastern restaurant will have to go without a liquor license for a week next month. Read more.
By adamg - 9/28/21 - 10:36 pm
A joint venture between a New York developer and a Los Angeles biotech venture-capital firm last week paid Gillette $80 million for a 2.4-acre parcel at A and Binford streets that Gillette now uses mainly for parking. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/21 - 9:40 am
Relax, it's a joke. But apple-flavored ivermectin is real.
WBZ reports a drugstore in Hopkinton is using a Rte. 9 billboard to offer up only the freshest, choicest human-type ivermectin for those Massholes who don't believe in doctors and science and stuff - except you theoretically can't get human-style ivermectin without a prescription. The state Department of Public Health is investigating.
By adamg - 9/21/21 - 4:47 pm
The US government, Massachusetts, several other states and the District of Columbia today filed an anti-trust suit against American and JetBlue - Logan's largest airline - alleging that a route-sharing deal between them will dramatically limit consumer choice and raise the cost of flying to and from Logan and New York-area airports.
In their suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, the US and the states charge: Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/21 - 9:52 pm
Photo by Greta Gaffin.
Members of the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents the newsroom and advertising staff at the Globe, stood outside WBUR's auditorium at Comm. Ave. and St. Paul Street this evening as Globe CEO Linda Pizzuti Henry was inside speaking on a panel titled "Trailblazers: Women news leaders from Katherine Graham to today," led by NPR's Robin Young - who asked if she wanted to say anything about the guild's lack of a contract for three years now. Henry said the panel was not the place to discuss labor issues.
By adamg - 9/18/21 - 1:26 pm
As greedy pig listens, Kathy Paul of Mass. Senior Action Council calls for lawsuit to be dropped.
Protesters peacefully gathered outside Turtle Swamp Brewing on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain this morning to urge the brewery and its landlord, Monty Gold, to work with a local non-profit to get 39 apartments for seniors built next door, instead of suing to block it. Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/21 - 9:12 am
Jennifer Dines pays a visit to the Pleasant Cafe, which has been serving pizza and other fare on Washington Street in Roslindale for 80 years now.
The article is the start of a program by the Boston Preservation Alliance and Boston Main Streets with the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, where, over the next year, students will write their own profiles of other "legacy" businesses in their neighborhoods.
By adamg - 9/15/21 - 10:29 am
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a jury's verdict that Philip Morris USA owes Fred Laramie's widow for getting him hooked on cigarettes when he was just 13 and then feeding his habit until he died of lung cancer in 2016. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/21 - 4:34 pm
The owner of a Brighton Center massage parlor whose workers offered customers sex for an extra fee has agreed to repay the money she got from two federal pandemic-relief programs last year because prostitution is not one of the businesses for which proprietors were allowed to claim such money. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/21 - 2:29 pm
A company that wants to open a marijuana mart on Newbury Street between Gloucester and Hereford this week sued the Zoning Board of Appeal over its decision to deny its request for permission within steps of two other cannabis concerns also proposed for the area. Read more.
By adamg - 8/31/21 - 2:13 pm
Kelly and Joyce at their hearing.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposed cannabis shop at 31 Cambridge St. in Sullivan Square, roughly 1,500 feet from another proposed cannabis shop it approved a couple months ago. Read more.
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