Nike today formally charged Brighton+based New Balance with infringing on several of its patents for producing pretty much everything in a sneaker above the sole and tread. Read more.
By adamg - 9/7/23 - 9:46 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports that New Balance CEO and 2016 Trump backer Jim Davis, who pumped $1 million into a PAC that failed to keep Michelle Wu from getting elected mayor this week donated $150,000 to a super PAC that is trying to un-elect two of the City Council's progressive members: Kendra Lara in District 6 and Ricardo Arroyo in District 5. The group's ads in the Herald also support John FitzGerald, Frank Baker's choice, in District 3.
By adamg - 4/30/23 - 9:30 pm
New Balance's development wing says it will soon file plans to replace a one-story commercial building at 131 North Beacon St., at Hichborn Street, in Brighton with a six-story, 78-unit condo building. Read more.
By adamg - 11/1/21 - 1:03 pm
New Balance has filed formal plans for a 175-room hotel at its Boston Landing development along Guest Street in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/19 - 9:42 am
New Balance of Brighton charges Nautica of New York with trying to ride its shoelaces to extra sales by copying its sneaker design and using a big capital N to brand its wares, just like New Balance. Read more.
By adamg - 1/23/17 - 12:57 pm
The backers of a restaurant proposed for New Balance's Brighton Landing project go before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday for permission to buy the liquor license of the failed-before-it-even-opened Painted Burro on Temple Place downtown. Read more.
By anon - 1/25/16 - 11:32 pm
In recent months, 427 units of housing have been proposed in a small Brighton neighborhood:
New Balance has proposed 295 units at 125 Guest St. as part of its massive Boston Landing development. The 17-story building abuts the New Balance athletic facility where the Bruins will practice and New Balance's flagship, ship-like building lines the Massachusetts Turnpike. Read more.
By adamg - 12/1/15 - 5:25 pm
New Balance last week submitted detailed plans to the BRA for a 295-unit, 17-story apartment building at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton - where B.L. Makepeace used to be - as part of its overall Brighton Landing project. Read more.
By adamg - 12/25/14 - 2:07 pm
Brighton-based New Balance is suing soon-to-be North End-based Converse over lawsuits Converse has filed against other sneaker companies.
By adamg - 11/30/14 - 12:50 pm
Phil photographed the new New Balance headquarters going up in Brighton recently.
Copyright Phil. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 5/16/13 - 7:26 am
The Boston Business Journal reports the Department of Transportation's Finance Committee this week approved a plan under which New Balance will b
By adamg - 4/13/13 - 2:35 pm
Fountain will supply water even in the dog days of summer. Photo by DCR.
Officials from the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and New Balance gathered in Artesani Park on the shores of the Charles this morning to cut a ribbon and official open a new year-round, three-faucet bubbler that will let thirsty runners, walkers and animals rehydrate, both through individual sips and by refilling their water bottles:
DCR Commissioner Ed Lambert loves that clean water. Photo by DCR.
By adamg - 4/12/13 - 8:20 am
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation and New Balance are holding a formal unveiling on Saturday morning - for a water bubbler in Artesani Pa
By adamg - 6/7/12 - 10:17 am
New Balance will pay to build and maintain a Worcester Line stop off Everett Street as part of a deal with the state Department of Transport
By adamg - 3/21/12 - 5:39 pm
The Boston Business Journal details the company's filing with the BRA for its $235-million project.
By adamg - 3/16/11 - 6:45 am
The Herald reports the owner of land in Brighton where Lowes kept getting denied permission for a big-box store has sold the land to New Balance's chairman, who wan
By adamg - 6/22/10 - 10:21 pm
Harry Mattison posts a copy of the BRA's letter to Lowe's telling it its proposal for a new store on Guest Street in Brighton is "inadequate." This could
By adamg - 2/25/10 - 8:03 am
Michael Pahre rounds up the latest news and conspiracy theories on the $250 million mixed-use proposal in Brighton, which centers on a parcel of land own
By adamg - 2/2/10 - 9:13 am
They don't own the land, but are hoping to mobilize the public to pressure the owner to sell, the Herald reports.
