Gambling commission hears revised Suffolk Downs casino concept

Proponents of salvaging a defeated Suffolk Downs casino by relocating the proposal entirely in Revere insisted Thursday before the state gambling commission that the project can be moved without a new referendum. Revere voters approved a Suffolk Downs casino Nov. 5, the same day voters in East Boston rejected the proposal. Original plans called for all the construction to take place on the East Boston side of the city line bisecting the property. Suffolk Downs’s strategy to stay alive in the fight for the sole Greater Boston resort casino license is to shift the proposal entirely into Revere, Continue reading >>>

Hospice of the North Shore holds annual Tree Of Lights in Danvers

Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston will hold its annual Tree of Lights ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. at People’s United Bank on One Conant Street in Danvers Square. The Tree of Lights is an event that invites members of the greater Danvers community to sponsor a light in memory or in honor of a loved one with a donation to support the mission of Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston. Immediately following the tree lighting ceremony, there will be a reception inside the bank where guests will be able to view the Honor Roll Book inscribed with the Continue reading >>>

New Dimensions: With expanded services, Danvers hospice takes on new name

  Hospice of the North Shore and Greater Boston has come a long way from the all-volunteer company that began in a two-family house in downtown Beverly in 1978. Today it has 385 employees, offers a range of services, not just hospice, helping 550 people each day while serving about 90 cities and towns from the New Hampshire border to Norfolk County communities just south of Boston. And starting Jan. 1, the Hospice will take on a new name — Care Dimensions. Part of the reason for the new name, was the length of the old name. “We realized that that’s kind of Continue reading >>>

Thanksgiving take-out options in Greater Boston

Area Four Apple crumble and pumpkin pies are available from Area Four; order at the café or hostess stand at their Kendall Square location by 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, and pick up by 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, or Wednesday, Nov. 27. 500 Technology Sq., Cambridge, 617-758-4444 Ashmont Grill This Dorchester restaurant has five delicious desserts for pick-up on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Pumpkin cheesecake, sweet potato pecan pie, apple cranberry crumb pie, carrot cake, and sticky toffee pudding will be offered. Order by Sunday, Nov. 24. Payment due at time of order, phone orders accepted.See desserts Continue reading >>>

There’s ‘Philadelphia Style’ Now in Greater Boston

Welcome to Triple-Decker Thursday, a new feature on that Greater Boston institution, the three-level apartment building. Click here to view the full photogallery. We'd heard of New York style. Or, even more specifically, Manhattan style. Now this number just north of Teele Square, which hit the sales market earlier this month, is described as a "spacious Philadelphia-style, three-family home." Any Philly transplants wanna take a stab as to what that means? Continue reading >>>

Homeowners coming up for air

The number of Greater Boston homeowners who are “underwater” on mortgages — meaning they owe more than their properties are worth — keeps falling. Zillow, the online real estate data company, reported Thursday that the percentage of homeowners with negative equity fell to 12 percent in the third quarter — nearly 45,000 homes — compared with 17.5 percent during the same period last year. The chart shows the downward trend in selected municipalities.

New Enterprise Associates Opens Boston Office To Serve Growing Portfolio …

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Pharma Business Week -- New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm, announced that it has established an office in Kendall Square in Cambridge to serve its growing portfolio and deal-sourcing work in the greater Boston area. NEA's current portfolio of Cambridge and Boston area investments includes nearly two dozen healthcare and technology companies, and the firm is also a founding partner in The Experiment Fund , a seed-stage fund operating on Harvard's campus (see also New Enterprise Associates, Inc. ). Continue reading >>>

Massachusetts Voters Reject Foxwoods’ $1 Billion Casino Plan

The casino measure turned out 57 percent of the town's 17,400 registered voters, less than the 73 percent of voters who turned out during the presidential election in 2012."We respect the choice Milford voters made today," said Scott Butera, Foxwoods president and CEO. "Throughout this process we've gotten to know Milford and thousands of its residents. While we worked hard to offer a resort casino we believe would benefit the area, the town made a decision similar to many other communities across the state."The vote was a critical step to keep alive a development plan that was one of three in Continue reading >>>