Empty storefronts don’t employ staff; there’s no one to purchase coffee, gas, lunch, or snacks from local merchants.
BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE: THE MASS HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENT FIASCO REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN
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HOW THE MAD DASH FOR HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS IS A WINDFALL FOR LANDLORDS (AT THE EXPENSE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS)
Marijuana applicants are often desperate to lock up space, willing to bid up rates well over market value in order to price out a rival.
REST IN YEAST (FOR NOW AT LEAST): A LANDMARK BAKERY SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS CAMBERVILLE HOME
Two days before New Year’s Eve, the company’s 12 staffers woke up unemployed. Still, in hope of reinventing their venture somewhere else, Andrew and Greta are taking everything with them
A WINDOW INTO THE STATE HOUSE
Rep. Mike Connolly’s blog offers a critical look behind the curtain of Mass politics
The Massachusetts State House is not a bastion of democracy. I think a growing number of people in the Commonwealth are pretty clear on that fact. Dominated for decades by a series of imperial House speakers, and to a lesser extent by its Senate presidents, ...
FOR DEVELOPERS IN BOSTON, IT MAY PAY OFF TO BLOW OFF INCLUSIONARY BUILDING REQUIREMENTS
The building was finished in 2017. But when the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) reviewed the completed project, it discovered the developer had sold the units that had been designated for affordable housing at market rates.
UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET
“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”
“WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!”
Moral panic hamstrings promising North Andover cannabis farm deal
Last fall, I wrote about the history of Osgood Landing—a large industrial facility in North Andover—as part of a column (“An Andover North Andover ...
FROM DECAY GROUND TO PLAYGROUND (AND BACK AGAIN)
Somerville residents reclaim empty lot, then forced out in latest rift of 10-year saga
TOXIC DEVELOPMENT: SOMERVILLE OFFICIALS SIDE WITH DEVELOPER IN LONG BATTLE OVER POLLUTED DAVIS SITE
The oil spill is just one of the many issues Iappini and others have endured, and which have been a common topic of neighborhood gossip for years around Davis Square.
