14 07, 2016

Eastern Bank Supports Southie

2016-07-14T12:27:36-04:00July 14th, 2016|Categories: Business, Featured|Comments Off on Eastern Bank Supports Southie

Tuesday morning, July 12, Eastern Bank (located at 470 West Broadway) rendered some very substantial support to the South Boston community. Shown in front of the bank are South Boston’s Eastern Bank Branch Manager Michele Hart and Eastern Bank Vice President Bob Foy (l.).  They are presenting a $10,000 check to the Laboure Center at D and West Broadway.   Receiving this check are recently-appointed Laboure Executive Director Jake Bombard and Sr. Maryadele Robinson, who is starting up Laboure’s “Recovery Connections Program”, modeled upon the efforts of the still-mourned Jack Leary. That same day, both John McGahan, President of the Gavin Foundation, and Bob Monahan, Executive Director of Julie’s Family Learning Program, also each received $10,000 checks from Eastern Bank to support their much-valued programs. South [...]

3 06, 2016

“Business Spring Fling” at Eastern Bank

2016-06-03T13:52:35-04:00June 3rd, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on “Business Spring Fling” at Eastern Bank

   It was simultaneously an event, a reception, and a celebration at the South Boston Branch of Eastern Bank last Wednesday evening, May 25.  Specifically, it was an evening to pay tribute to the strength of small businesses all across America – both locally and nationwide.  May is “Small Business Month”; Mayor Walsh had previously paid tribute to the strength of Boston’s small businesses by publicly stating that they provide 170,000 jobs in the City of Boston.  It was a real “Small Business Spring Fling”. In the commendably brief program, Eastern Bank Branch Manager Michele Hart welcomed her guests.  She reflected back on the six years she has served as Eastern Bank’s South Boston Branch Manager, focusing on the value of small businesses here, and [...]

25 05, 2016

South Boston Farmers Market returns in June

2016-05-25T12:06:08-04:00May 25th, 2016|Categories: Business|Comments Off on South Boston Farmers Market returns in June

The South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation, the current sponsor of the South Boston Farmers Market, will hold an Opening Day Celebration at the market on June 6. Check in with old favorites Freitas’ & Wenger’s Farms to get some flowers and early vegetables. Welcome our new fish vendor Ray the Fish Guy and bakery vendor PB Boulangerie! The first 20 shoppers will receive a $2 coupon for market products. There will be live music playing by Jan and Lou Borelli from noon to 3 p.m.. Local officials will be present to kick-off the market around noon. For Opening Day, specialty vendors like ‘More Than Words’ (books) and ‘Tea is the Way’ (tea) will be selling their products as well. The Boston Cyclist’s Union will come [...]

18 05, 2016

East Boston Savings Bank business breakfast celebrates bank, city, local businesses

2016-05-18T13:45:56-04:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on East Boston Savings Bank business breakfast celebrates bank, city, local businesses

By RICK WINTERSON On Tuesday morning, May 17, East Boston Savings Bank added another chapter to what has become a tradition in South Boston and beyond – well beyond. Some years ago, before its consolidation with EBSB, Ed Merritt of the then Mt. Washington Bank began having business breakfasts that informed the local business public of the bank’s progress during the past year. Dick Gavegnano, the chairman, president and CEO of EBSB, liked what Merritt was doing and decided to continue this tradition after EBSB merged with Mt. Washington. The Venezia Restaurant in Port Norfolk on the Neponset River estuary was the business breakfast’s 2016 locale. Venezia is located centrally to the many branches that EBSB now has in various business and customer centers around [...]

11 05, 2016

Cinco de Mayo in South Boston

2016-05-11T15:30:42-04:00May 11th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Cinco de Mayo in South Boston

At 634 East Broadway, Wears + Wares is a fairly recent addition to South Boston’s Broadway scene (there’s a kind of friendly rivalry as to whether East or West Broadway becomes “Big” Broadway in the future. May the “Best” Broadway win). Nikole Roome and Clodagh Fitzharris put on a Cinco de Mayo evening last Thursday at Wears + Wares, complete with margaritas and guacamole, to kick off the weekend leading up to Mother’s Day. This was a joint event with Nurture, The Sun Tan Van and Lashes by Clo. Has a new South Boston tradition started? -Rick Winterson

5 05, 2016

Proposed South Boston Starbucks rejected

2016-05-05T17:39:17-04:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Comments Off on Proposed South Boston Starbucks rejected

South Boston will not soon have another Starbucks Coffee. The city's licensing board unanimously rejected the license for a Starbucks proposed for the corner of L Street and East Broadway on Thursday morning. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh "was also opposed due to the lack of neighborhood support," wrote a spokesperson for the mayor in an email Thursday. The proposed Starbucks was for a property at 749 East Broadway. Michael Norton owns the property. According to numerous articles, there was much opposition this week to the proposed Starbucks. Last week, community members gathered at the location, South Boston Online reported: "In general, those gathered were firmly against opening a Starbucks there, due to potential traffic problems, a lack of neighborhood notification, and no perceived need for yet [...]

27 04, 2016

Artists for Humanity announces expansion

2016-04-27T14:12:54-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Artists for Humanity announces expansion

By RICK WINTERSON The Artists for Humanity’s EpiCenter will expand by more than twice its current size in less than two years, the South Boston center, city officials and private business leaders announced Monday morning. The reception to announce the expanded EpiCenter Building on A and Second Streets was a joyful celebration. Susan Rodgerson, the founder and executive/artistic director of Artists for Humanity, was the hostess. The expansion is expected to start with groundbreaking this fall; completion is slated for the end of 2017. The South Boston organization “is a national leader in youth arts enterprise whose mission is to bridge economic, racial, and social divisions by providing under-resourced urban youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design,” a press [...]

27 04, 2016

Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

2016-04-27T14:10:00-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

Michaela Bavis welcomes you to Dew Luxe’s new location at 376 West Broadway, which she opened last weekend. The Best-of-Boston Dew Luxe is situated between E and F Street, next to the Lith Club on the left and the new Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation on the right. West Broadway has come alive again! The offerings at Dew Luxe are quite eclectic, so there really are two excellent reasons to make it a destination shop of your own: First, to get a good, general look at all that the newly spacious Dew Luxe offers; second (and more specifically) to go leather – shoes, handbags, and even elegant pet accessories. -Rick Winterson

20 04, 2016

With some community support, Murphy’s Jewelry relocates

2016-04-21T10:42:53-04:00April 20th, 2016|Categories: Business, Featured, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on With some community support, Murphy’s Jewelry relocates

By SUSAN DOUCET For decades, Billy Cosetta has been helping members of the community. If a set of rosary beads needs repair, Cosetta, the owner of Murphy’s Jewelry, fixes them at no charge. This winter, when Cosetta found out he was being evicted from the East Broadway storefront where Murphy’s has long been located, the community rallied around the small business owner who has shown generosity. His daughters set up an online fundraising campaign to help finance his relocation. More than $15,000 was raised in two months. “I wouldn’t have been able to move without it,” Cosetta said of the community’s fundraising efforts. Murphy’s Jewelry is now in a new building on West First Street. The development – condos with commercial space on the ground [...]

20 04, 2016

Springtime shoppers stroll along Broadway

2016-04-20T14:42:49-04:00April 20th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Springtime shoppers stroll along Broadway

By RICK WINTERSON The Spring Stroll has become another South Boston tradition. It is centered upon the merchants, enterprises and purveyors of refreshments along Broadway. But as you’ll recall, South Boston Online focused the lead article in our April 7 issue on residential developments along West Broadway. Well, the rapid development of shops and businesses along West Broadway is equally astonishing, so we are focusing on that in this issue. New businesses range from the South Boston Arts Association’s (the SBAA’s) charming new “Around the Corner” Gallery to a major opening last Thursday: the Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation.  Check out their “core values” prominently displayed just inside their door. The SBAA Gallery is just around the corner from Neatly Nested, a design and furnishings shop [...]

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