The Boston Fire Department reports that workers building the expansion of the former Landmark Center, now known as 401 Park, hit a gas main under 201 Brookline Ave. around 10 a.m. Workers were evacuated and National Grid called in to fix the pipe.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Garrett Harker, forced out of the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square, plans to open four "food and beverage concepts" in a new luxury building a couple blocks from the hotel at 771 Beacon St..
Boston Public Works shows us one of their mini-plows clearing the Mass. Ave. bike lane across from the Christian Science Center early this morning.
Jay Kenney looked out his Dorchester window and saw nearly 10 inches on the ground and more coming.
Over in the Fenway, Voo Doo was ready for a little scraping: Read more.
Possible rendering by Sasaki Associates.
Skanska USA has filed preliminary plans with the BPDA for the proposed six-acre, four-building mixed-use complex it plans to build with Simmons University off Brookline Avenue as the school moves its current dorms to new space on its main campus a few blocks away. Read more.
Update: The board found a violation for providing free drinks, but not for the possible drink spiking, which was not a subject of the bar's citation.
The Boston Licensing Board will have to decide whether a bartender at Game On on Lansdowne Street gave three young women free shots - possibly spiked with a date-rape drug - during a brief July visit, or whether something else might have caused their memory loss, heavy vomiting and odd behavior after they left. Read more.
Boston University announced today it will require all students, professors, staff and other "affiliates" to show proof they've gotten a Covid-19 booster shot by Feb. 4. Read more.
Northeastern University today told students, faculty and other workers they will have to show proof of a booster Covid-19 shot by Jan. 18. Read more.
Samuels & Associates told the BPDA today it will soon file detailed plans for a 553,000-square-foot replacement for the creaky old Star Market on Boylston Street in the Fenway, that will include R&D labs and associated offices as well as ground-floor commercial space and new green space on a lot now occupied by a shuttered gas station.
Boston firefighters responded to 49 Symphony Rd., for a fire called in around 2:15 p.m. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Cornwall's in Kenmore Square has shut due to the Citgo/Whoop construction next door, but that it hopes to re-open in March.
Surveillance photo via State Police.
State Police report they are hunting roughly 40 people on dirt bikes and ATVs they say began attacking an 82-year-old Brookline man near the Bowker Overpass, then kept following him as he tried to escape onto Storrow Drive and then beat him when he rolled down his window on Cambridge Street in Allston to yell for help this past Thursday night. Read more.
Berklee College canceled classes today and is moving classes remaining until Thanksgiving to remote learning due to a spike of Covid-19 cases this week. Read more
WBZ reports the end of weekend bus diversions on the B Line as the T this morning opened its new Babcock Street and Amory Street stops, which replace four smaller stops along Commonwealth Avenue. The work finished several months ahead of schedule.
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police are seeking the public's help to identify the pack of bros who beat a man at Lansdowne and Ipswich streets early on Sept. 9. Read more.
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