The owners of the Fan Pier development said today they'll be leasing space to a Starbucks, a Mediterranean meze restaurant and a daycare center.
The Starbucks, which will take 2,100 square feet, will join existing starbucks at the Manulife Financial building, the Renaissance Harbor Hotel and the Westin Boston Harborfront. It's slated to open this summer, according to the Fallon Company, which is building out Fan Pier as a mixed-use complex.
George Aboujaoude - think Cafeteria and the Bijou Nightclub - plans to focus on both meze, which are sort of like tapas plates, and "hand-crafted" cocktails at a restaurant called Committee, due to open this fall.
Bright Horizons will start up a childcare center in May, according to Fallon.
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Starbucks or Starbucks
By JohnAKeith
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:01am
I hope it's a "real" Starbucks.
At least one of the other three isn't "real" - there's no WiFi and you can't use your Starbucks card.
Weep for me.
The Westin is real, but the
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:36am
The Westin is real, but the Convention center is on the waterfront like Newton is. The other two are decidedly not. You can use your card, though, but they just swipe it like any other card, and they can't scan your phone-based barcode.
These are the problems that keep me up at night, as well.
Stick one of those Starbucks
By tenfortyseven
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 8:26am
Stick one of those Starbucks in Hyde Square JP and it would make a lot if people happy.
Starbucks
By James Levins
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:08am
I'm not a big Starbucks fan at all. I wish those four locations were Peet's instead of Starbucks. I would rather have a lot more Peet's open up around Boston. In my neighborhood there is nothing but Dunkin or McDonald's or Tedeschi's. Starbucks is too bitter and smug and Dunk's tastes like watered down donkey piss. If you live in Boston long enough, you somehow force yourself to adapt to Dunk's because in a lot of neighborhoods it is literally your only option..... :(
Peets is just as generically
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 1:04pm
Peets is just as generically mallerfic as Starbucks. There are independent businesses (Flour) to support and that should be the focus of developers. In contrast to Kendall Sq which has filled much of the retail space with independent restaurants, the innovation district has been developed more like Framingham, hopefully Walsh will reverse Meninos vision of chains on the water. Peets and starbucks are the same, support local small businesses.
Yeah but the quality of Peet
By James Levins
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:03pm
Yeah but the quality of Peet's coffee is light years ahead of Starbucks...
You must be from Carifornia.
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 6:25pm
You must be from Carifornia. People from the Northwest love Seattle, people from Carifornia love Peets and everyone else only goes there if they are stuck in a suburban strip mall and have no alternatives. They both serve generic sub par coffee.
We can compromise and put in
By James Levins
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:06pm
We can compromise and put in a JP Licks? That's kinda local....
We need JP Licks on East or
By SoBoYuppie
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:04pm
We need JP Licks on East or West Broadway!
The Original SoBo Yuppie
JP Licks on Broadway
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 4:47pm
JP Licks on Broadway would be grand!
Our mission is to get rid of subway and replace...
By Doug E
Thu, 05/01/2014 - 10:08am
with a JP Licks... Broadway Village will secede from South Boston..
I used to go to JP Licks all
By tenfortyseven
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 8:30am
I used to go to JP Licks all the time, until I got to know the owner and saw how much of a dick he is.
Flour's coffee is terrible.
By Josev
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 9:48pm
Flour's coffee is terrible. Terrible.
smug??
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 1:18pm
yes they have bitter coffee - but the food is the same you'd find at a continental breakfast at any mid-range hotel - people who frequent starbucks are mostly middle-management hacks (or aspiring mid-level management and/or soccer-parent) - probably because it reminds them of airport/mall food courts.
starbucks is quite possibly the farthest thing from smugness you could get - once you go in there you've pretty much accepted you're a boring middle class person - unless you think pottery barn is smug... then I can't help you.
No, not literally
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:02pm
An electric teakettle and french press are nearly always an option.
So is a thermos - or is that too working class?
Most Boston-area neighborhoods have local coffee places too
By Ron Newman
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 6:10pm
Where are you?
How long until the meze
By tcf098
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:33am
How long until the meze restaurant closes and is replaced by a BoA?
That whole area is lame...
By MatthewC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:37am
Starbucks is terrible, and that meze restaurant will no doubt be overpriced and mediocre. And also pretentious.
Any other complaints, princess?
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 12:23pm
There is plenty to like about the growing waterfront's retail and culinary expansion. For instance Gather has some of the best octopus in the city.
You wouldn't know, of course, because that whole area is terrible and would obviously be much better served as some sort of post apocalyptic proto commune.
And get a new name, this one is taken.
Go fuck yourself....
By MatthewC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 1:53pm
How's that? You want throw insults around just because you're crying about how other people have opinions different than yours? You now know what you can go do. And I'll use any name I want, regardless of how much you pout like a child.
Now go eat some octopus, princess.
Awww, did someone get thew
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:04pm
Awww, did someone get thew widdle feewings hurted?
"Thew"...
By MatthewC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:45pm
Proofread, buddy.
You can reply if you feel the need to. You're obviously just here to start shit with people.
Despite your terrible attitude and generally rude demeanor, I hope you have a nice day.
So you're ok with "widdle"
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:05pm
So you're ok with "widdle" and "feewings" but not "thew"?
I knew it!
By MatthewC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:56pm
You couldn't resist responding. I love it. Hey, I'm having fun here. We can keep going all day.
Just like that Kinks song.
By NiceMatthewC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 5:27pm
Just like that Kinks song. "All day and all night"
I like disco!
Ha! Nice.
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 11:32pm
Ha! Nice.
Who knows how it will all shake out
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 12:47pm
Right now, you have, along Northern Ave, the typical corporate convention expense-account joints. A couple of blocks in, you've got a pretty vibrant independent restaurant scene. Go there on a Friday night, and you just can't get in the door because the neighborhood is so hot. Will it all devolve to Quincy Market mediocrity in another 5 years? Who knows? In the mean time, there's fun to be had and tons of money being made.
Innovation, Seaport, So. Boston Waterfront...what not.
By plt3012
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 12:51pm
All the things mentioned are truly wonderful. I work in the area. On quite a few occasions I have been asked if there are any drug stores (pick a chain) or some kind of store/supermarket.
Enough with the overpriced stuff. How about practicality?
Just leave some room down
By kvn
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 1:41pm
Just leave some room down there , for a new City Hall , and a small hole in the wall for a Joe & Nemo's......
Practicality?
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:00pm
That would have required PLANNING! Like, you know, deciding ahead of time what a complete neighborhood or business district could use and seeing that it got built.
Thinking like that - communist thinking - would mean decent transit and places for those who live in the area to walk to!
Can't have that!
There will eventually be
By whyaduck
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 2:51pm
a CVS in South Station. I think that is as close as one is going to get.
Not so sure about that
By MattyC
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:26pm
I think the lot on the corner of B st is slated to be mixed residential and commercial with an eye towards a smallish grocery. Perhaps that will include a CVS or similar? I may be conflating projects, but I don't believe the area will be bereft of shopping forever.
One would think.
By whyaduck
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:58pm
But I work in Kendall Square, and we still do not have a CVS or some sort of pharmacy and this area is pretty hot right now. So I am not sure why some areas get 'em and some do not. I am not a fan of CVS but...
B?
By Parkerchris
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 7:49am
B and west broadway? Where the car dealer is? Foodies is a block away so I doubt a small grocery. You might be thinking the west third/A project? In either case it's a bit far away from the seaport.
No, B and Northern Ave.
By MattyC
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 9:45am
No, B and Northern Ave.
Coffee and Innovation go together, but...
By mediaseth
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 1:44pm
...that's exactly why the area needs a real coffee joint and not a chain. Not. Any. Chain.
If I don't see innovation on the ground floor, I'm going to assume there isn't much of it on the floors above.
Want Real Coffee?
By anon
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 3:53pm
Barrington Coffee Roasters is a short hop over to Congress St.
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