Texas bar-and-restaurant chain
Bar Louie will open a restaurant inside a Marriott Residence Inn under construction in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. The chain already operates a restaurant inside Patriot Place at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. Bar Louie has more than 70 US locations...
Whole Foods Market Inc. opened a new store in Arlington, MA. With the opening of the Arlington store, Whole Foods will have converted all six former
Johnnie’s Foodmaster locations into Whole Foods stores. The other five are in Brookline, South Weymouth, Melrose, Charlestown, and Somerville. Arlington will be the 28th Whole Foods Market store in MA...
Keurig will open a store at Burlington (MA) Mall in November, the brand’s first retail venture. Keurig’s parent is Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. Although based in Vermont, the company has major research and development centers located a short distance from Burlington Mall. Shoppers will be able to interact with Keurig brewers and beverages from Keurig K-Cup, KeurigVue, and Keurig Rivo systems...
City Sports, which recently opened a store in Boston’s Financial District, not far from an existing store, plans a new store in the Fenway area, as well as two new stores in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, and one in Rockville, Md...Kohl’s opened a new 54,800 s/f store in Hyannis, MA , the 25th Kohl’s in Massachusetts. Kohl’s has 1,160 stores in 49 states....
Tractor Supply Co. opened a store in Morrisville, VT, the company's seventh VT store.Tractor Supply operates 1,234 stores across the country...
Weylu’s, the long-closed, palatial hilltop restaurant on Route 1 in Saugus, has been sold for $4 million, less than half of the asking price. The Rocco DiNanno Group got the 9-acre site for 63% off the list price of $10.7 million. The Weylu’s parcel is assessed at $3.37 million. The sprawling, three-story, 60,000 s/f restaurant ran into trouble when the recession hit in the early 1990s. Weylu’s was shuttered in 1998, after a bankruptcy court ordered its liquidation...
Joe’s American Bar and Grill and
Papa Razzi in Hanover, the last two MA locations in the restaurant empire built by Sarkis Restaurant Group – formerly Back Bay Restaurant Group –will close this month..
.iParty's 28 stores in Massachusetts have officially transitioned to the
Party City brand name and will offer a larger selection of party supplies, decorations and costumes...
Trader Joe’s opened a new a 12,000 s/f store in the Hingham Shipyard complex in Hingham, MA...
Foxwoods Resort Casino is reportedly building a 300,000 s/f retail center in partnership with Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. that will feature more than 80 retailers, including
American Eagle Outfitters, Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein and
Nike.The retail center is expected to open in late 2014 or early 2015, depending on weather...
Hardee's plans to open 200 restaurants in the Northeast region in the next five years – the first for the fast-food burger chain since Hardee's shut down and retreated from the region in the 1990s. Restaurants are expected to open in New Jersey and New York within the next 12 to 18 months, followed by Connecticut and Massachusetts...North End restaurant
Piccolo Venezia has shut its doors after 32 years..
.The Purple Shamrock, the Faneuil Hall pub that closed its doors last September after more than 30 years in business, is set to become a
Panera Bread. Meanwhile, the Purple Shamrock has reportedly been looking for a new place to open...
Drybar, the blow-dry salon chain, is opening stores in Boston’s Back Bay and in Chestnut Hill. Drybar’s move to Boston was motivated by inquiries from Boston fans of the stores through social media.