No sale: Visitors to brothel Web site today were greeted by seizure statement.
Federal officials today announced the arrest of two Korean nationals and a Korean-American on charges they ran a series of brothels in newer high-end apartments both here and in northern Virginia, following an investigation that began in 2020 that involved stake-outs, phone surveillance, rooting through trash and interviews with customers. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the P.F. Chang's at Legacy Place is going to be replaced by a Capital Grille, which offers neither Chinese food nor giant horse statues.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Friendly Toast hopes to open an outlet at Legacy Place this summer.
Reuters reports Amazon is abandoning its foray into bricks-and-mortar books and is shutting all of its physical locations where it sold books, including at Legacy Place.
The MBTA today released a ton of proposals to change its bus routes, including one of the longest routes in its system: The 34/34E that runs from Forest Hills all the way to Walpole. Read more.
Lined up outside L.L. Bean.
When Dana Gitell got to Legacy Place in Dedham around 9:20 this morning, she saw two long lines. Yes, one was outside the Apple store (below). But the other was outside L.L. Bean, where people were lined up for Red Sox "limited edition" tote bags.
Dedham Patch reports on one Dedham mother's efforts to get the clothing store to put the sexy books (yes, of course Urban Outfitters carries books about sex) in an "adult" section where the teenlets who flock there from as far away as West Roxbury can't have their impressionable minds sullied by titles such as Sex Tips for Girls by Guys and
In fact, he bit a cop trying to get him out of the mall for committing various alleged acts of assholery and wound up getting a shot of pepper spray, Dedham Patch reports.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Kings, the Back Bay bowling/eating place, is opening a branch at Legacy Place in Dedham.
I'm thinking Ron's in Hyde Park is not too worried.
Channel 25 reports crazed outdoorsy types are, even as I type this, standing in the pouring rain in Dedham waiting for the new L.L. Bean to open this morning - in another hour and ten minutes.
Paul Keleher shot the giant boot outside the new L.L. Bean's at the new Legacy Place (where the Dedham Googleplex used to be). The store opens Friday morning.
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