The Boston Licensing Board next Wednesday considers granting a food-serving license to the 7 Pond Coffee Bar proposed for, well, 7 Pond St.
The high-end coffee place is proposed by Maks Milstein, who owns Brookline's Cafe Fixe. Milstein used to be a lawyer, but got hooked on coffee brewing as a hobby and eventually decided to abandon the law for the bean.
Board hearings begin at 10 a.m. in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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Love me some Fixe
By ErnieAdams
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 9:39am
Glad to hear it's spreading. This guy is the truth.
Sounds like gentrification
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:04am
Quick, someone get the JPNDC and Claudio Martinez on the phone - this can only lead to to more of the wrong sort of people wanting to live in JP.
It's hysterical
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:21am
that the people in JP who constantly scream about gentrification are White and not originally from the neighborhood!
two things
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:13am
1) sarcasm - look into it.
2) Claudio Martinez is white?
I said "The People"
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:28am
not "Claudio Martinez." I was speaking in general.
ok
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 2:09pm
so Claudio Martinez (non-elected local person) should be able to talk about gentrification, but not 'the people' in general.
two things
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:14am
1) sarcasm - look into it.
2) Claudio Martinez is white?
Not all white people
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 4:05pm
come from the 'burbs, or out of state, you know.
LOL!
By cybah
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:21am
Ya know I was just thinking that...
Why isnt the JPNDC all up in arms about this? Its too 'high end' like Whole Foods is.
Of course since it's local and not a huge corporation it might be ok.
It's on the long gentrified side of Centre
By adamg
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:27am
As long as it's not a chain, it's OK.
JP hasn't made it
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:15am
... 'til it gets it's very own Starbucks.
Sarcasm off.
Maybe a jolt...or two...
By whyaduck
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:23am
of high test coffee will get the hipsters to move quicker crossing the street.
Crowded marketplace
By erik g
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:34am
The proposed site is 2 blocks north of JP Licks, which for my money is probably the best coffee you can get in Boston. Maybe they don't primarily identify as a coffee joint, but between that and City Feed across the street, JP doesn't suffer from lack of coffee options on that part of Centre Street.
Not enough parking. The smug
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 10:38am
Not enough parking. The smug suburbanites taking over JP need a place to put their Prii. There simply isn't enough space to conveniently double park anymore.
bike parking
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:46am
right - there isn't even close to enough bike parking on centre street. I typically just leave my bike in one of the dozen or so empty spots in the Burroughs street lot.
The owner of a vacant commercial space...
By jonbowen
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:01am
that I'm representing in Jamaica Plain would like to have a coffee shop as a tenant in his newly renovated building and I think that it'd be a good location for one since there is a ton of traffic on Heath Street and there is no competition near that location.
even though you're sort of spamming the comments
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 11:49am
I'm giving you an upvote just because that location is right off the SW corridor and I'm sure people would use it.
Nice plug for your RE
By PeterGriffith5
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 2:32pm
The owner of a vacant commercial space that I'm representing in Jamaica Plain would like to have a coffee shop as a tenant in his newly renovated building and I think that it'd be a good location for one since there is a ton of traffic on Heath Street and there is no competition near that location.
Nice plug for your RE business!
Heh...
By fairlee76
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 1:42pm
Oh, I can think of a few reasons that that is "no competition" near that location. Reasons made out of red bricks and symbolizing the worst in social engineering.
Firehouses?
By anon
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 6:07pm
Firehouses?
What do brick crosswalks have to do with coffee shop patronage?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 6:21pm
They make it unpleasant for
By People in wheel...
Thu, 08/22/2013 - 9:12pm
They make it unpleasant for us to traverse said crosswalks because of the insistence of civil engineers to use uneven tumbled brick.