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East Boston business owners upset entertainment space took over key parking spots

BOSTON - A temporary entertainment space for seasonal and youth programming went up in Day Square in East Boston. The space took up key parking spaces, and now have business owners concerned over the traffic issues it may cause.11...

Four years after closing, Allston music venue Great Scott is coming back

After the pandemic shuttered the doors of smaller music venues across Boston four years ago, the beloved Allston music venue Great Scott is making its way back to the city's flourishing music scene.  Despite an outpouring of public support after...

Boston business titan Jack Connors recalled for impact on Catholic education, generosity

BROOKLINE — Jack Connors Jr. was known throughout Boston and beyond as much for his generosity as he was for his business savvy.Besides the many boards on which he served, including Partners Healthcare System, the Boston College Board of...

Top of the heap: These are the highest-paid CEOs in Mass. for 2024

Compensation packages for the highest-paid chief executives in Massachusetts again rose in fiscal 2023, according to a Boston Business Journal analysis of companies’ regulatory filings. This year, unlike previous ones, there were no massive stock awards pushing total compensation into...

Fidelity-owned hotel staff picket, call for boycott

Workers at the Fidelity Investments-owned Seaport Hotel picketed in front of the hotel to announce a boycott calling for customers to avoid the destination until their union is recognized. Seaport Hotel banquet and convention services workers held their election to...

Eastern Nazarene College closure to eliminate 125 jobs

Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy said its planned closure will eliminate all 125 jobs, the school disclosed last week in a mandated WARN report. A small Christian school of just over 500 students, the college said last month that it...

Larry J’s BBQ Cafe: This Black-owned Boston business is spreading the gospel of barbecue – The Bay State Banner

Owner Larry Jimerson in front of his restaurant PHOTO: COURTESY BOSTON SEAPORT Since 2012, the owner of Larry J’s BBQ Cafe, Larry Jimerson, has provided Bostonians with mouthwatering barbecue. Jimerson’s journey into the world of barbecue began on a...

Black residents are less prosperous in Boston compared to suburbs, says study – The Bay State Banner

Suffolk County, where Boston sits, had the worst prosperity score in the state, with a score of 49. PHOTO: GARY HIGGINS/BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL Banner Business Sponsored by The Boston Foundation If you are a Black resident of Massachusetts, your economic...

Could the Sumner Tunnel closure be good for some businesses? East Boston chamber says yes

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Happy Third of July! We have another beautiful, dry day for the nearly 20 Massachusetts...

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Boston ‘is dying from the inside out’, retailers warn

Sharon Edwards/BBCIt is a view shared by jeweller Tim Hopper, who owns one of Boston's longest-running businesses.ST Hopper Ltd,...