The Boston Business Journal reports that local car magnate Herb Chambers is selling most of his dealerships to some Georgia concern for more than $1 billion. No immediate word if the names will be changed to some mongrelized phrase like all the Boch dealerships that now go by NuCar.
The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled a company that owns an office building and freight warehouse on five acres of Massport land off McClellan Highway in East Boston has to pay Boston property taxes - mainly because in 1993, the state Senate only sort of voted to override a Bill Weld veto of a measure that would have exempted the building, but not really. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by the owners of Tipsy's, the former Figueroa's at 739 Parker St. on Mission Hill, to add spirits to the beer and wine they already sell. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Gavin Moseley, who operates Borrachito and the Garret in the Echelon building at 70 Pier 4 Blvd. in the Seaport, open a third joint next door, a sports bar called Rocco's. Read more.
A woman attending a work event at Ned Devine's in Faneuil Hall Marketplace on Sept. 25 told police the last thing she remembered was going into the women's room after 8:30 p.m. - until she woke up in a stall around 2:15 a.m., all the lights off and nobody else in the locked-up bar. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the Boch Center and a billboard company for an electronic billboard on Stuart Street that the center's CEO says will provide enough lease income to help it continue its programs in the community. Read more.
Mayor Wu this morning announced a plan that would require food-delivery companies to obtain city permits, buy insurance for their delivery people and hand over data to the city on where all those people are going with their food - and how fast. Read more.
Update: Of course, he got played like a fiddle, so no tariffs for now, at least not on Canadian, Mexican goods.
Irving Oil, based in New Brunswick, is alerting its New England heating-oil customers their bills are going up 10% Tuesday, when 47's new tariffs take effect (although the 25% figure is more widely known, it's actually 10% for energy products). And the Globe reports that 80% of all of New England's gasoline and diesel fuel comes from Canada - mainly from an Irving refinery in New Brunswick - along with 90% of Logan's jet fuel.
From Gov. Healey on impending tariffs on stuff imported from Canada, Mexico and China: Read more.
HorizonMass reports on a company gloating about its FAA approval without really specifying just why it wants to have drones zipping and hovering right over your head, although a month or so ago, it announced it had successfully finished using drones to deliver medications in a pilot with Mass. General, but in a city and state with few guardrails on what surveillance-eager authorities could also use them for.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans by the venerable Hatoff's on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain to add more gas pumps, after nearby residents fumed over what they said would be more pollution and noise from motorists filling their tanks with the cheap gas. Read more.
Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said today she plans to call a hearing at which to consider rolling back the 2 a.m. closing time for Theater District clubs, after listening today to police describe large street parties that often include people taking over the streets so they can crank up giant speakers mounted in the back of pickups, drink, dance, sometimes on the tops of cars, and get into brawls. Read more.
The Boston Landmarks Commission recently designated the Jewelers' Building at Washington and Bromfield streets as the city's newest official landmark. Read more.
A group of North End restaurant owners and the North End Chamber of Commerce today asked a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling by a judge that the city had the right to treat the neighborhood differently and impose fees for putting patios on public sidewalks and roads - or even just to bar them altogether. Read more.
Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Daily Table is closing its store on River Street in Mattapan Square on Sunday, says it just wasn't drawing enough business. Other Daily Table stores, including the original one in Codman Square, will remain open.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 35 Freeport Way in Dorchester for a fire in a metal-clad building around 11 p.m. on Sunday. The department reports one person inside was transported to the hospital with injuries.
Watertown News reports on the flour that fell on neighboring streets like snow earlier this month from a silo at the Newly Weds factory.
A federal judge ruled today North End restaurant owners simply had no case against Mayor Wu for first ordering fees on North End restaurants that wanted to use city sidewalks and curbs for outdoor dining and then banning private patios on public ways in the neighborhood. Read more.
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