Boston firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded to Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St. at Stuart Street after an SUV driver hit at least one pedestrian and then plowed into the front entrance shortly before 3:40 p.m. Read more.
Banker & Tradesman reports a San Francisco investment firm today paid $212 million for Avalon Bay's 29-story apartment building at 45 Stuart St. (next to the currently charred Jacob Wirth). Despite its new name, the building is a couple blocks away from the Common.
Firefighters attack Jacob Wirth fire. Photo by Smith.
Boston firefighters responded to the Jacob Wirth building, 37 Stuart St., around 11 p.m. on Monday for what turned into a four-alarm fire extending across all three floors. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved Big Night Entertainment's plans to buy Metro, 100 Stuart St. in the Theater District, and rename it BSMNT. Read more.
Adam Castiglioni reports that Dave's Hot Chicken, which specializes in spicy Nashville-style fried chicken, will open a branch in the Transportation Building on Stuart Street on Feb. 2.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today gave its blessing to a plan by City Realty to convert some fire-ravaged living space into four apartments above the old Jacob Wirth that it's now converting into a new Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street. Read more.
Pilotblock South End watched workers today removing stuff from the old Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street - including its large sign, but also items from inside, such as a host stand, possibly as part of renovations to bring the place back to life. Read more.
Some FBI and other federal agents are probably grateful for sovereign immunity because, as WBZ reports, they were doing a training exercise around 3:45 a.m. on Tuesday when they started banging on the door of a 15th-floor room at the Revere Hotel on Stuart Street demanding to be let in and when they were, they handcuffed the airline pilot who had been sleeping in the room, stuffed him in the shower and then interrogated him - until they realized, oops, he really was who he said he was and not part of their exercise.
Two investors who are part of a group that has bought up a number of Boston-area dives and their buildings in recent years today bought the building that houses the shuttered Jacob Wirth restaurant on Stuart Street for $5.27 million, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
Update: The shooting victim, Branden Barrett, 34, of South Weymouth, died several days later. Police are looking for his killer.
One person was shot outside Moxy on Tremont Street at Stuart Street around 9:10 p.m. The homicide unit and the DA's office were called in due to the seriousness of the shooting victim's injuries. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on charges he stabbed four men at Tremont and Stuart streets around 2:10 a.m. - leaving one with injuries so bad the homicide unit was called in just in case. Read more.
Amy Weingarten Salvucci reports:
Water main break on Warrenton so Stuart street a bit of a mess
Update: Suspect photos released.
Two people were stabbed at Warrenton and Stuart streets around 2:20 a.m., Stanley Staco reports. Both victims were taken away in critical condition.
The stabbings came just hours after a community meeting on violence in Chinatown.
Boston Police report arresting a Newton man on a variety of gun charges after detectives found "an AM-15 rifle with a mounted scope," an old Yugoslavian rifle, a loaded .45 caliber Remington 1911 R1 handgun, two larg- capacity magazines and several rounds of ammunition inside a room at the W Hotel on Stuart Street last Thursday night. Read more.
The re-birth of the historic Jacob Wirth German restaurant on Stuart Street might coincide with end of the historic Marliave French and Italian restaurant at Bosworth and Province streets. Read more.
A man who was involved in the mass purchase of Boston dives a few years back has filed plans with the city to re-open the seemingly dead-and-buried Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street. Read more.
The building's so bright you gotta wear shades. Rendering by CBT Architects.
Skanska USA Commercial Development Inc. this week filed plans with the BPDA to actually put up the 26-story tower at 380 Stuart St., across from the original and now Old Hancock Tower, that John Hancock won approval to build in 2015 and then didn't. Read more.
WCVB reports a BTD worker who had pulled up to Charles Street South and Stuart Street to write some parking tickets early this morning was injured when somebody jumped into the car and drove off - with the worker's hand initially still in the door. Police caught up with the car, and the Brighton woman who allegedly stole it, on Southampton Street.
Royalty's vision of a cannabis shop where Jacob Wirth is now.
A marijuana entrepreneur tried to convince skeptical Chinatown residents tonight that turning the decaying former Jacob Wirth restaurant into a state-of-the-art cannabis concern would benefit local groups, give jobs to people harmed by the war on drugs and save a national landmark. Read more.
The Boston Office of Neighborhood Services will hold an online meeting next week on a proposal to convert the shuttered Jacob Wirth restaurant on Stuart Street into a cannabis shop. Read more.
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