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While you're waiting for a new hotel on Cross Street, how about some axe throwing?
By adamg on Sat, 10/21/2023 - 2:23pm
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.
Earlier this month, William Caulder, founder and principal of 6M Development, registered a new LLC with the state, Axe Throwing Club Boston, with a stated description of running "an axe throwing club or venue for profit."
Caulder would have reason to toss the ceremonial first axe: Although his company won BPDA and zoning-board approval last year for its planned five-story hotel, the project is now tied up in a Suffolk Superior Court lawsuit that court records show is not scheduled for a decision until Oct. 21, 2024. A nearby resident, possibly bankrolled by a competing developer, sued. 6M then tried to subpoena North End residents who had contributed to a GoFundMe she set up; a judge tossed those out.
Yesterday, as Adam Castiglioni photographed, the old J. Pace space at Cross and Endicott streets had a big sign up advertising the new place for people who want to toss the ol' axe around.
According to its Web site, the club will require a membership - of just $1. And it's looking for employees:
We are looking for axe throwing coaches and hosts.
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Great
PRE-demo.. I think you mean.
Regardless, what great fun. I can go do this while I wait for the line for the 111 bus to die down. The stop is across the greenway from this building. I can vent out some of my frustrations with work.. or other mbta riders, depending on the day of the week.
But to be honest, this building has been partially empty for a while, and its really two single story buildings. It would be better served by a taller building here, especially since it is served by a private parking erm drop off area in front. Not sure we need another hotel in the area (there's 4 within less than a 7m walk of this area), but better than a single story building!
Preventive editing
Would've caught that. Thanks, fixed.
Remind me avoid the Greenway porch swings across the street
So as to not cross paths with the inevitable disgruntled/dismayed/drunken customers who decide to carry their frustrations out their door.
Hopefully alcohol isn't
Hopefully alcohol isn't allowed on the premises, breathalizers are at the gate to get in, and background checks are as strong as the gun laws. Eh hem.
They'd need a liquor license
And those are now going for prices approaching $600,000 on the open market.
Is this satire?
n/t
Full liquor license and 4am
Full liquor license and 4am closing. I'm all for it.
Revolution Axe
Revolution Axe in Everett's been open since before the pandemic. https://www.revolutionaxe.com/
They have a liquor license ("craft beer, cocktails, ciders, and wine") and they're right next door to the Skyzone trampoline park. I'm waiting for the crossover events (synergy, bruh)!
Now, that's
a _real_ Irish bar.
They should use faces of politicians as the targets
Thrower's choice as to which politician, of course. They'd make more money than the hotel.
Envelope full of $100 bills exchanged at Columbus Park?
That Banker & Tradesman article linked by AdamG is wild! Thanks for surfacing it. I had no idea.
Surprisingly it seems
Surprisingly it seems perfectly legal to carry an axe in public in Boston as long as you don't hit someone over the head with it. You'd be charged with manslaughter if you did that and they died.
You'd have to arrest all the firefighters
Axes are tools, as are knives. It isn't practical to outlaw them completely.