July 03--A frustrated Mayor Martin J. Walsh yesterday didn't rule out suing the Massachusetts Gaming Commission after it denied his request to delay awarding the coveted Greater Boston casino license until after a November vote on a possible repeal of the gaming law, and he said the city's total casino-related expenses could run into the "millions." "Our attorneys are looking at what the next step will be," Walsh told the Herald. Asked whether that step could include suing the commission, the mayor said, "Potentially." "I think the Gaming Commission is very shortsighted here," he said. "This Continue reading >>>

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is making a renewed push to promote Boston as a U.S. gateway and hub for foreign businesses, meeting with the city’s 40-plus foreign consulates, revamping international marketing and coordinating with tourism agencies.“The world is being connected through Boston,” Walsh said last week during a meeting with a Swiss delegation at City Hall. “In the past, people said the world is being connected through New York. We’re changing that.”Elected during an era of strong economic growth, Walsh is looking to continue the momentum with a pronounced international push.Setting Continue reading >>>

For a club that would become part of jazz history in Greater Boston, Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike wasn’t much to look at when it opened in Peabody in the early 1950s on the stretch of Route 1 known as the Newburyport Turnpike. “I used to describe it as ‘early ramshackle,’ ” Lennie Sogoloff, the proprietor and emcee, told the Globe in 1992. Continue reading below In the hands of Mr. Sogoloff, who died of pneumonia Saturday in Marblehead at 90, the tiny roadhouse became a mansion of music, attracting the likes of Count Basie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and Dizzy Gillespie. “Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike Continue reading >>>

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston will present Me and My Girl from July 10-20, 2014 as part of its 46th Annual Summer Season at the Robinson Theatre (617 Lexington St. Waltham, MA). Me and My Girl is the joyously funny story of an unrefined cockney gent who must choose between love or money. The mixture of cockney and nobility results in a rollicking, hilarious Downton Abbey with engaging song and dance. Me and My Girl Director Cynthia Thole is a Broadway veteran and choreographer who was an original cast member in the Tony Award-Winning Broadway revival of Me and My Girl. Reagle Music Theatre Continue reading >>>

An expert on gaming in the Northeast believes Mohegan Sun's "surrounding community" agreement with the City of Boston may give the casino operator and its $1.3 billion Revere, Mass., project an edge in the two-way race for the coveted Greater Boston casino license."I think it puts them a little bit ahead at this point," said Clyde Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.Mohegan Sun and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Thursday that they had come to terms on a deal guaranteeing Boston at least $300 million in payments over a Continue reading >>>

Posted Jul. 11, 2014 @ 7:00 am
Updated Jul 11, 2014 at 9:22 AM

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Mohegan Sun reached a $300 million deal with the city of Boston on Friday to strike a surrounding community agreement for the proposed casino in nearby Revere, according to the Boston mayor's office.The deal executed between Mohegan executives and Mayor Martin Walsh calls for the casino to invest $45 million in transportation improvements, $30 million for local capital projects in East Boston, and $18 million annual to mitigate the community impact of the development.Mohegan is vying for the sole Greater Boston casino license from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The Connecticut-based Continue reading >>>

"We are very happy to say today that we have a deal with the City of Boston," said Kevin Brown, the Mohegan chairman. "The Mohegan Tribe has a long history of being good neighbors in New England. And the approach we have taken to this agreement -- and all of our surrounding community agreements -- is reflective of that history."The agreement calls for Mohegan Sun Massachusetts to pay Boston a minimum of $18 million annually, with shares of gross gaming revenue escalating over time to $22.5 million or more. The city would also receive $30 million over 10 years for capital improvements in East Boston Continue reading >>>

Posted Jul. 10, 2014 @ 9:08 pm
Updated Jul 10, 2014 at 9:10 PM

Senate Construction Corp., a commercial construction company based in Shirley, has commenced the second phase of construction at Boynton Meadows in Groton. A summary of recent transactions and personnel news within Greater Boston’s real estate community. Senate Construction Corp., a commercial construction company Continue reading >>>