Robert Kraft

The mayor vs. the Krafts

By adamg - 12/3/11 - 11:54 am

The Herald reports on the looming battle royale between Tom Menino, who wants a casino at Suffolk Downs, and Robert Kraft, who wants a casino next to his football stadium/mall in Foxboro.

Kraft pitches new soccer pitch study for East Somerville

By Kaz - 10/16/08 - 6:11 pm

The Kraft Group would like to move the popular New England MLS franchise, The Revolution, to a new, smaller, soccer stadium in East Somerville. This has worked well for other MLS teams and the location is already under consideration for development as part of the Green Line expansion and repair yard by MBTA officials.

Kraft funded a $150,000 study in June to develop working ideas for the site after contacting the city of Somerville one year ago about where it might be able to locate such a stadium near the largely immigrant populations of Boston that might be some of the team and venue's biggest fans.

One idea to come from the study is to combine the Green Line extension and stadium by placing the stadium in the "air rights" above the proposed repair yard.

Bob Kraft: Trade-show award just as important as Super Bowl ring

By adamg - 9/28/07 - 11:08 am

Turns out Kraft's company is a backer of Matchmine, a startup that attempts to aggregate user ratings of all sorts of stuff to give you recommendations on new things you'd like (anybody remember Firefly?). In fact, the core technology comes out of the Patriots' technology team. This video is mainly of the company CEO explaining the technology at this week's DemoFall conference, but Kraft shows up about three-quarters of the way in, and flashes that ring and talks about winning a Demo God award for best presentation at the show:

Full disclosure: By day, I'm an editor at Network World, which puts on the Demo shows.

Robert Kraft's rabbi apparently was too busy preparing for the High Holy Days to read the papers this week

By adamg - 9/14/07 - 10:57 am

Or maybe she was really trying to impress a point on him. Jason Schwartz goes to the same Newton temple as Kraft and reports on her Rosh Hashanah sermon, in which she discussed, for some reason, the goodness of Cal Ripken Jr. and how he is an especially good model in an era of sports scandals:

... This was really awkward.

The guy sitting next to my dad leaned over and whispered, "Does she even know Bob Kraft goes to this Temple?" and a hefty portion of the congregation craned their necks over to Kraft's pew toward the front. ...