Outages at 11:30 a.m., via Eversource outage map.
Update, 3:15 p.m. Eversource reports 139 homes and businesses still without power in Boston, but no outages in Dedham, Brookline and Newton.
Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for widespread outages that started around 10:45 a.m. in an area that extends from Brookline and Newton streets in the north to most of West Roxbury and Dedham in the south. Parts of Roslindale as far east as Roslindale Square are also affected. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court concluded today that a man has no right to the money he says he's owed through a secret oral deal with Wynn Resorts to get paid more than his partners for selling it the land where its Encore casino now sits. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a plans to replace Cathedral Station, 1222 Washington St. in the South End, with a marijuana dispensary. Read more.
Drone's eye rendering of 931 Hyde Park Ave.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to turn the long closed Serino's pasta plant at 931 Hyde Park Ave., across from the America's Food Basket strip mall, into a new home for Gourmet Caterers, which currently does catering out of space on Washington Street in Forest Hills. Read more.
Hotel under construction in 1926. Source.
Sunstone Hotel Investors of Aliso Viejo, CA, announced last week it's sold the 1,050-room Boston Park Plaza in Park Square for $370 million, to Parks Hospitality Holdings, which is returning "Hilton" to the hotel's name. Read more.
Cambridge Police report arresting pro-Palestinian protesters outside the offices of Elbit Systems on Bishop Allen Drive in Central Square this morning. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.
Harvard University today sued its insurance broker, which it says is to blame for the failure to notify one of its legal insurers in time to get reimbursed for all the legal help it needed in a nine-year, ultimately unsuccessful, effort to fend off a lawsuit - and still ongoing federal investigation - involving its affirmative-action policies for student admissions. Read more.
Banker & Tradesman reports it will be moving its manufacturing from its long-time home at World Shaving Headquarters on Fort Point Channel to Andover by 2026 - although it will maintain a presence in South Boston. And that means a huge piece of land could go up for development rights.
Photo by Adam Castiglioni; the party-platter sign is probably left over from J. Pace.
The head of the development company that wants to replace a block on Cross Street in the North End with a 134-room hotel is hoping to use the pre-demolition space to let Bostonians work off their aggression at what would be the city's first axe-throwing facility. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the opening of the Dorchester Food Coop, 195 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester.
The city's first food coop since Harvest closed in Jamaica Plain in 2018.
Update, 2/9/24:: Boston Beer Corp. has agreed to drop Soudant from its lawsuit, which continues against Downeast Cider House.
Boston Beer Corp., which makes both Sam Adams beer and Angry Orchard cider, yesterday sued a former manager and Downeast Cider House, the East Boston cider maker where he went to work after quitting Boston Beer this spring. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports MIT is fighting Eversource over underground power cables the utility wants to install beneath MIT as part of its plans for a new Binney Street substation. In filings with the state, MIT goes so far as to say the work could kill the school, because it could disrupt the arteries that radiate out from the school's "heart" - a central utility plant that feeds vital electricity, steam and water across the campus.
Proposed route of new steam pipe across Charlesgate, from Vicinity filing
Vicinity Energy is planning a half-mile pipe from the Back Bay to the Fenway Park area to provide steam heat to all the new buildings going up or planned on and near Brookline Avenue. Read more.
Rendering of possible bus and bike lanes on Blue Hill Avenue.
The city is out with a comparison of two basic approaches for improving Blue Hill Avenue between Mattapan Square and Grove Hall - a massive re-build with construction of dedicated bus lanes and a more modest plan with a massive increase in traffic enforcement by police - and says it expects Mayor Wu to announce a final plan for the road by the end of the year. Read more.
Boston Real Estate Times reports that 18.4% of downtown office space was vacant in the most recent quarter. Citing a Cushman & Wakefield Report, though, the site says demand for Boston-area industrial space remains strong and that life-sciences space also saw an uptick in demand.
A South Carolina lender focusing on the marijuana industry today asked a judge to let him take control of Middlesex Integrative Medicine, which has a dispensary in Norwood and a growing facility in Leominster, because he says it's no longer paying him back on millions in loans and its Leominster plant is no longer producing enough product to keep the company afloat. Read more.
Chris Faraone at Talking Joints Memo covers the week in pot, and what a week it was: The suspended chair of the state cannabis commission suspended, for now, her suit against the state treasurer, Massachusetts marijuana marketers are beginning to hit economic headwinds and it looks like one grower that fled the state after one of its workers died could be in for a fine.
Nutter, McLennen & Fish today sued the owner of Seaport West, the tall curved brick office building across Seaport Boulevard from the World Trade Center, over what it says is an outrageous $1-million annual rent increase. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Kazuhiro Aotani, who operates Boston Ramen Co. in Harvard Square, open a new ramen outlet called Sushi by Bosso Ramen Tavern at 163 Newbury St. in the Back Bay. Read more.
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