downtown

Boston Public Market moves forward - yay!

redheadGrrlie — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:52:39 +0000

The city is moving ahead with it's plans to put a year-round, indoor, multiple independent vendor Public Market in Downtown Boston. Having lived in a city(Portland, ME) with a dedicated indoor market similar to the proposal for this one, I'll say, I can't be more excited to see this come to fruition.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-19/yourtown/31211513_1_operations-manager-market-site-year-round-market

I really hope that the managing company of this one doesn't fall prey to some of the same unfortunate snowballs that ours did - the high rents drove some founding vendors out, the rents made the produce/product prices go up to cover overhead, the rise in prices drove potential customers away.

*crossing my fingers and waiting for the next report*

Downtown Crossing development

MarkNavin — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:56:38 +0000

The hole in the middle of the city where Filene's used to be is supposed to be a sparkling new retail, office and condo tower someday. This week on www.radioboston.org, we're remembering when Downtown Crossing was where you went to find deals, when you didn't necessarily have the banq for Newbury Street. And we're asking what you'd like to see developed there.

Boing for you, boing for me...

eeka — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:31:15 +0000

Dude. I'm loving the new Starbucks doubleshot promo where the guy rides around near North Station on a Starbucks bike and hands out doubleshots from his bike basket. I'm wondering how effective it really is as a promotion though, because I'm getting at least one per day from this guy, so I'm not going to need to buy the stuff ever. But hey, free boing. Gotta love that.