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The team behind a specialty food shop in the western suburbs of Boston will be opening their very own restaurant.
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Hearing reopens debate on pro soccer stadium in Everett
A revived effort to develop a pro soccer stadium in Everett, Massachusetts, was scheduled to be discussed at a public hearing Tuesday, and both legislative branches have previously endorsed language to spur a key zoning change.
The latest attempt to spark construction of a future home for Robert Kraft’s New England Revolution in Greater Boston was filed by Sen. Sal DiDomenico in December.
His bill would remove a 43-acre parcel of land situated partly in Boston and Everett from its “designated port area” status “for the purpose of converting the parcel into a professional soccer stadium and a waterfront park.” The designation is meant to “promote and protect water-dependent industrial uses,” according to the Office of Coastal Zone Management.
The parcel on the Mystic River, eyed by Everett officials and The Kraft Group as a potential new home for the Revolution, who play at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, is currently occupied by a defunct power plant. It’s situated across from Encore Boston Harbor.
DiDomenico’s bill, should it advance and be signed into law, would mark one victory in a multi-year permitting effort, as the project would also require environmental and transportation reviews from the state, plus local zoning approval.
In written testimony shared ahead of the hearing, the Conservation Law Foundation said it opposes DiDomenico’s bill and called “spot zoning” — or carveouts for zoning rules for one specific land parcel or developer –“bad planning.”
Senior attorney Maggie Sullivan said CLF does not oppose Everett’s hopes for a soccer stadium, but she warned that removing one of the state’s 10 working ports with deep-water access could harm the state’s clean energy goals. Traffic congestion on game days could also increase air pollution in Somerville, Everett and Boston, she said.
The Legislature should be cautious about “shrinking our port footprint and undermining our clean energy goals, and make sure any stadium is one that fans can actually get to and that neighboring communities embrace without regret,” Sullivan said.
Language facilitating construction of an Everett stadium won House approval in an economic development in mid-July 2022, but Senate negotiators did not agree to it as part of a compromise bill.
Then in 2023, the Senate incorporated similar language into a supplemental spending bill to pave the way for a stadium. But that provision didn’t make it into the conference committee report following closed-door House-Senate negotiations, and revelations over a separate agreement may have scrambled a possible deal.
DiDomenico is listed as a “third-party overseer” in a November memorandum of agreement between Everett and NRS, LLC, a Delaware company with its “principal place of business at One Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts.”
The signed document calls for a “world-class stadium” with about 25,000 seats at 173 Alford Street, plus an “enticing public park” on the waterfront. There would only be 75 on-site parking spots, and NRS would study improving pedestrian infrastructure to encourage public transportation use.
The bill was the only item on the agenda for the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies hearing scheduled for 2 p.m.
Worcester sandwich shop Ziggy Bombs opening in Brookline
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Last spring, it was reported that a Worcester dining spot known for its steak and cheese subs was expanding to the local area, and now we have learned that its new location is up and running.
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Police search for 15-year-old from Springfield that ran away last month
A 15-year-old boy from Springfield, Massachusetts, ran away last month, and now police are trying to find him, authorities said Tuesday.
Carlos is believed to have runaway at about 5 p.m. on March 27, Springfield police wrote on its Facebook page. …
Cement truck hits pedestrian under I-93 overpass in Boston, police say
A cement truck hit a pedestrian on a street under Interstate 93 in South Boston on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the pedestrian was hurt or how badly.
The incident took place about 10:11 a.m. near the …
Former Red Sox executive Larry Lucchino has died, reports say
Former Boston Red Sox executive Larry Lucchino has died, according to The Boston Globe and other media outlets. He was 78 years old.
Lucchino served as the team’s president and CEO for 14 years, from 2002 through 2015, a period during which the Red Sox won three World Series. He helped bring together the group led by John Henry and Tom Werner that purchased the team in 2001. He most recently served as chairman and principal owner of the Worcester Red Sox.
He also served as chairman of the Jimmy Fund, the philantropic arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Insititute. He was a three-time cancer survivor.
Before joining the Red Sox, Lucchino served as president of the Baltimore Orioles from 1988-1993 and president and CEO of the San Diego Padres from 1995-2001.
According to the Red Sox website, Lucchino was born in Pittsburgh, where he was was an All-City League basketball player and second baseman on the Pittsburgh city championship baseball team. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and then graduated from Yale Law School. At Princeton, he was a member of two Ivy League championship basketball teams. He held nine honorary degrees from Suffolk University, Boston University, Bryant University, New England School of Law, Anna Maria College, Palomar College, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Bentley University, and Assumption University.
Lucchino was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in May 2012, the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and the Taylor Allderdice High School Hall of Fame in November 2013, the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in May 2016, and the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in July 2022.
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