When members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded the Greater Boston casino license to Steve Wynn, they already knew there was something fishy about the ownership of the Everett parcel he plans to build on. The Globe reported last year that federal and state investigators were asking whether convicted felon and Mafia associate Charles Lightbody was a secret investor in the property that Wynn intended to buy, and the commission made the other property owners sign promises that no secret partners would get a cut of their proceeds. In the end, the panel concluded Continue reading >>>

Gary Neill for the Boston Globe This piece will be featured in the Oct. 5 print edition of The Boston Globe. AS SUMMER wound down, I e-mailed my closest childhood friend, a distinguished Swedish doctor named Christian Sundberg, to inform him I’d soon be visiting his hometown. He responded that he was “in Sierra Leone at a pediatric emergency hospital in the middle of the biggest Ebola outbreak in recorded history.” The health care systems in West Africa, the epicenter of the current Ebola crisis, have been crippled by the outbreak. Aid workers Continue reading >>>

Greater Boston host, Emily Rooney, joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan this week for another installment of her weekly list of obsessions and observations, "Emily's List." This week's theme dwelled on all the things Emily vows, without exception, never to do. 1. Skydiving — tandem or otherwise. "I don't want to die, I'm not going to skydive." 2. Enter a pie eating contest. Simply because, "I can't win." 3. Going to China. "I'd be swept up in the government and put in jail." 4. Sudoku. "I'm not good with numbers."  5. Playing golf. "It's a rude sport. It takes too much Continue reading >>>

One-eighty Clyde wants $8,500,000 through Campion Co. It last traded on the open market way back in July 1997 for $2,775,000. We’ll see what happens.
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State officials have teamed up with cities and towns in Greater Boston to put together a list of developer-friendly neighborhoods and parcels, a move being applauded by a local development association.“Developers would find life a lot easier if you just told them in advance, here are some places in communities (that) would like to get stuff built,” said Greg Bialecki, the state secretary of housing and economic development. “(In the past) we have not been open and transparent about where we want things and where we don’t want things.”Yesterday, the state released a list of 12 “Priority Continue reading >>>

By Christopher Hurley
churley@wickeclocal.com


Posted Oct. 2, 2014 @ 4:18 pm

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BOSTON — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted three men on charges they tried to conceal a mob associate's ownership stake in land near Boston upon which Wynn Resorts has proposed to build a $1.6 billion casino.The Wynn Resorts proposal beat out one by Mohegan Sun for the sole license to operate a casino in Greater Continue reading >>>

​Wayfair, a Boston-based online home furnishings retailer, went public Thursday and now has a market capitalization of nearly $3 billion. David Harris Tech Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  |  Twitter Continue reading >>>

When Wayfair’s founders rang the New York Stock Exchange bell Thursday morning, they didn’t just announce the company’s arrival on the public market—they rang in a new era for the Greater Boston technology and innovation ecosystem. Raising $304 million in its initial public offering (the company actually traded higher than expected starting at $35.25 this morning), the IPO is one of the biggest for a Boston-area technology company. It also signals a historic shift for the local tech community. During the golden age of the “Massachusetts Miracle” driven by innovators coming out Continue reading >>>