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Won't some kindly patrician New Englander save Brigham's?
By adamg on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:51am
Pretty please? With jimmies on top?
Rob Sama expresses disgust for the apparent bloodsucking leech who sucked all the money out of the chain and then dumped its sodden remains on a bankruptcy judge, adds:
... I think that the best hope for the brand is that somebody buys it out of bankruptcy court. I think it's unlikely that a PE firm would emerge to do that, but either a wealthy New Englander might, or the remaining franchisees may want to band together to save the brand. Or maybe even Hood might be convinced to step in. Or a local chef like Barbara Lynch who just opened a high-end restaurant modeled on Brighams. ...
Ed. daydreaming note: What about the hospital? Surely there's some synergy there?
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If not the hospital...
..then the Circle. Which is not all that far from the hospital area.
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who and the what now?
What about the hospital? Surely there's some synergy there?
More than synergy, if I'm remembering correctly. Peter Bent Brigham made his fortune in restaurants, amongst other things (real estate, chicanery...), then left money to build the hospital. His will was contested & the legal fracas was long lived, so The Peter Bent Brigham wasn't opened until the teens of the last century. Another family member (a nephew I believe) endowed his own hospital, The Robert Breck Brigham, which opened shortly after the PBB. One of the Brigham descendants started the ice cream chain in Newton in the 20's. So there are definitely family ties.
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Ummm... no can do
... because that would require wealth. You're so busy soaking the wealthy that you haven't noticed they're all leaving the state.