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Aug 27, 2010 :
Bakery Grows as Business Expands
Salem News
When they opened in 2006, they didn't have the means to create the larger space. The changes will give A&J more kitchen room to prepare pastries, slightly expand the retail side, and add storage for employees and a small office.
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Alex Schnip, property manager for RCG, the real estate company that manages many of the storefronts in the Derby Lofts building, said he's "thrilled that A&J King is doing so well."
"They're ready to take on an expansion," he said, "and we want to continue to work with them in the building."
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Jul 28, 2010 :
Salem's Eatery Boom Creates a New Restaurant Row
Salem News
Restaurant Row starts at the New England Soup Factory, 140 Washington St., and extends all the way up WashingtonStreet and around the corner to Gulu-Gulu Cafe, 247 Essex St.
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Most restaurant owners seem to like the crowd."
We are really thrilled about having all these other restaurants here because they are so diverse," said Steve Feldmann, theowner of Gulu-Gulu, which opened three years ago.
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Apr 27, 2010 :
Celebrate Shakespeare's birthday at Gulu-Gulu
Salem News
Shakespeare will celebrate his birthday this week. Of course, The Bard won't actually be in attendance Thursday night at Gulu-Gulu Cafe, but that's not unexpected. It's his 446th birthday.
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The annual open-mike night has become something of a local tradition.
'We had about 100 people' last year, said Gary LaParl, executive director of the Salem Theatre Company, which is co-sponsoring the event with Rebel Shakespeare, a youth theater program.
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Apr 27, 2010 :
Art from the East Mill
Lawrence Eagle Tribune
Twenty-four artists were given a challenge when they received a photograph of the Davis & Furber's East Mill, and were asked to create a painting from it.
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The paintings "Art from the East Mill" will be on display Thursday through May 31, in the gallery inside the main East Mill lobby, 21 High St. An opening reception will take place Thursday from 5 t 8 p.m. The gallery is open weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and weekends by appointment.
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Apr 19, 2010 :
No Respite on Rent
Boston Globe
While Boston housing values have dropped in the double digits over the last five years, rents have only dipped and now appear to be rebounding. As a result, prospective tenants looking to sign leases on apartments before the city’s traditional Sept. 1 rush will find high prices and few incentives, real estate brokers and property managers say.
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Matt Picarsic, a principal with the Somerville-based real estate investment and property management firm RCG, said rents in RCG’s 600 Boston-area apartment units, for instance, have remained flat or have increased over the last year.
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Apr 6, 2010 :
East Coast Grill takes top honors in Munch Madness
Boston.com
Mirroring the NCAA's March Madness, but tastier than basketball, it pitted 64 establishments against one another to determine the fan favorite.
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And the winner is ... East Coast Grill. The Cambridge restaurant celebrates its 25th year anniversary this year, and this victory shows why it's been so long lived.
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Feb 14, 2010 :
Salem Theatre Company celebrates new space with festival
Boston Globe
To celebrate the opening of its new downtown performance space, the Salem Theatre Company is presenting a three-weekend festival of comedy, theater, and music beginning this weekend.
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“Moving the company to a permanent theater at 90 Lafayette St. is a game-changing move for us, so we needed to change our plan and adapt season seven to best suit our new performance space,’’ said John Fogle, the company’s artistic director.
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Jan 18, 2010 :
Two RCG Tenants Awarded Salem Cultural Council Grants
Salem Gazette
The grants were awarded from a pool of funds distributed to Salem by theMassachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that supports public programs and educational activities in the arts,sciences and humanities.
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Awardees for 2010 include: Cornerstone Books and the Salem Theatre Company
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Dec 20, 2009 :
Good pub fare with an emphasis on friendly service
Boston Globe
Bar favorites like nachos, wings, and burgers seem like standard fare for a restaurant featuring booths with private televisions, as if the larger ones lining the wall overhead aren’t enough. In the case of Tavern in the Square in Salem, however, you may miss out if you limit yourself to old favorites.
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Open for just over six months, the restaurant has locations of the same name in Cambridge’s Central and Porter squares. While sports are taken seriously at all three self-billed neighborhood restaurants and bars, so is customer service.
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Dec 10, 2009 :
At long last, a place to call home
Salem News
The Salem Theatre Company has been looking for a home virtually since its founding in 2002. It has been seriously looking for a couple of years. The search grew almost desperate last fall when Executive Director Gary LaParl couldn't find any place in Salem to stage next year's plays — not a meeting room, not even a church basement. It got so bad that he considered taking the whole season on the road to Marblehead and Lynn.
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The search, and anxiety, ended last Wednesday night when the Salem Theatre Co. board of directors signed a two-year lease for 90 Lafayette St., a former auto repair business that once housed Dracula's Castle, a haunted house.
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Dec 8, 2009 :
Our view: New theater another plum for downtown Salem
Salem News
About to enter its ninth season, the STC has developed a strong local following. Yet its programming was hampered by the lack of a permanent home for its productions.
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Last week, STC officials announced plans to move into a former storefront at 90 Lafayette St. in Salem near where the historic downtown meets the city's growing waterfront district.
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Nov 30, 2009 :
No Sign of Salem Eatery Boom Slowing
Salem News
"I think Salem is really vying to be the top dining destination on the North Shore," said Matt Picarsic, a principal of RCG, the Somerville developer that rents space to more than a half-dozen restaurants that have opened in the past decade.
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The biggest buzz this year was created when the operators of Tavern in the Square, who have two restaurants under the same name in Cambridge, opened a third, 300-seat establishment in Salem.
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Nov 24, 2009 :
Salem's Chulamama expands with New Danvers Store
Salem News
In 2007, Heather Roman and Noelle Moreno opened Chulamama, a designer maternity clothing store in Salem. Roman and Moreno, both mothers of two, felt there was very little for the pregnant, fashionable woman who didn't live in a big city.
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"We met at a play group with our oldest children. We are both into fashion and style and spoke about how there are no options for maternity. There was no place to buy (designer maternity clothes) outside of New York City, and there are all of these moms north of Boston who want to feel like themselves and dress like themselves."
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Nov 20, 2009 :
Tavern Opens its Doors for Thanksgiving
Salem News
One of the city's newest and, on occasion, most controversial restaurants is staying open Thanksgiving Day to serve free turkey dinners to anybody who walks through the door.
The Thanksgiving dinner, which will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (doors open at 11 a.m.), is for the elderly, the homeless, anyone who is alone, and anybody and everybody, Morris said.
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Oct 29, 2009 :
Construction has Begun at Cadence Point Development
Transylvania Times
Construction is underway at Cadence Point, the first large subdivision development to be permitted in Brevard under the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO).
"We are extremely pleases with our progress and interest in the development, especially given the current challenges facing the real estate and construction industry," said Cadence Point's developer, Nick Bayne, a native of Brevard and a partner with RCG.
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Jun 2, 2009 :
Former News Building Opens as Apartments, Tavern
Salem News
City leaders yesterday praised RCG for sticking with this project and persevering through a tough economy.
"Even in a down economy, there are people who want to live in the downtown," said Alex Steinbergh, a principal of RCG. "In our view, Salem has been outperforming most of the local cities in this recession."
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