The New Retail Thread

JumboBuc said:
Per Boston Magazine, the Baseball Tavern will indeed reopen in the new Scape building once it's finished:

Scape probably cut the guy a fat check and offered him a below-market future lease in order to keep him around. If only every developer could handle long-standing tenants that way. And if they're actually able to reintegrate the baseball cap awnings and Bud-branded sign in a aesthetically coherent manner, that'd be pretty sweet.
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If it's good enough for The Burren, it's good enough for the Baseball Tavern...
 
chrisbrat said:
still a bummer. really the only appeal of the baseball tavern was/is the roofdeck. there's plenty of meathead sports bars in town.
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Prior to the Baseball Tavern (pre-2005 or so?), it was Quest/1270, which also made good use of the very same roof deck, but with more drag queens. Meathead bars are a dime a dozen here. We need are more places like Machine. I wonder if they were also offered a new space in the new development.
 
Roxxma said:
Prior to the Baseball Tavern (pre-2005 or so?), it was Quest/1270, which also made good use of the very same roof deck, but with more drag queens. Meathead bars are a dime a dozen here. We need are more places like Machine. I wonder if they were also offered a new space in the new development.
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They're allegedly making up for it with an "LGBT theater" space, so it'll be much more sterile than the night club. That said, I believe the owner of Machine is old and done with the business.
 
odurandina said:
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At No Name Restaurant, an unceremonious end to a storied 102-year-old Boston establishment - The Boston Globe

A Facebook message and a bankruptcy filing spelled the unceremonious end to the No Name Restaurant, a storied, 102-year-old Boston establishment that manifested the American dream and served a diverse cast of locals and tourists over the years.
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Odurandina -- truly Sad 😭
I've probably ate more sea food at the No Name than any other restaurant in Greater Boston with the exception of the various Legals
Locke Ober, Durgin Park, Jacob Worth, L'espalier ... a sad litany just in the past couple of years of Le Fin du siècle -- old Boston [which almost could have been said 100 years ago just as much as now]
 
^^Trend with these decades old eating and drinking establishments
is all the adjectives + disturbing. Amazed people aren't buying up these businesses,
or their naming rights--including the places with troubled balance sheets.
 
odurandina said:
^^Trend with these decades old eating and drinking establishments
is all the adjectives + disturbing. Amazed people aren't buying up these businesses,
or their naming rights--including the places with troubled balance sheets.
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The fact that the city let them get away with not paying $700,000 in property taxes is rather absurd. I get it, the business was struggling, but if my business or anyone else's did not pay the local taxes, there are generally severe consequences.
 
falcon42 said:
The fact that the city let them get away with not paying $700,000 in property taxes is rather absurd. I get it, the business was struggling, but if my business or anyone else's did not pay the local taxes, there are generally severe consequences.
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There are consequences. The business filed for bankruptcy and will be liquidated. Owners will get zero.
 
TallIsGood said:
There are consequences. The business filed for bankruptcy and will be liquidated. Owners will get zero.
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Yes but they haven't paid taxes in 10 years. The city ran up a huge loss they most likely will not recoup, based on that balance sheet.

Look at Bees Knees in Fort Point. They literally locked their doors for unpaid taxes a couple year ago. Selective enforcement at its finest.
 
^That's too bad. I've been in there as recently as last month.

In other watering hole news, Backlash Beer Co. is calling it quits (for the taproom, anyway): [Edit: Link no longer working]

Sad to see another one leave, but not at all surprised. They had a beautiful taproom in the middle of nowhere, but the beer was meh. There's way too much on the market now to make it worth going out of your way for OK $8 draft beers. I went twice on summer Saturdays when they had the garage open, and it was a ghost town.
 

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The au bon pain on Cambridge street in the West end/beacon Hill has closed. There are signs that a flour will replace it and open in the spring. As someone who lives close, this is clearly an upgrade and helps solve the problem of no good fast breakfast place in beacon Hill
 
Nice to see it will be a Flour and not a Tatte, those places are multiplying like a disease right now. I didnt even realize a new one had opened in the old B3 spot in Berkley. Tatte=corporate and sterile. Flour=moderately less so
 
BuilditDenser said:
The au bon pain on Cambridge street in the West end/beacon Hill has closed. There are signs that a flour will replace it and open in the spring. As someone who lives close, this is clearly an upgrade and helps solve the problem of no good fast breakfast place in beacon Hill
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Wow, this is great news. It's actually not a bad space for that side of the street and I think they can do a much better job with it than ABP did.
 
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