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Five things: Business bankruptcies, CQ hotel property, and chilly trick-or-treating
Good morning, Boston. Here are the five things you need to know in Boston business news to start your Halloween Tuesday.
The number of business bankruptcies in Massachusetts in the nine-month period ending Sept. 30 has already surpassed all of the business bankruptcies in 2022, Meera Raman reports.
The owner of the Club Quarters hotel in downtown Boston is in negotiations to surrender the 178-room property and three other hotels after defaulting on a $274 million loan secured by the real estate…
Brothers Wright Distilling investing $38M into new Eastern Kentucky distillery
The mine’s internal dry-stacked rock walls remain intact, and the site already serves as home to the first barrels of the company’s product.
Khan-backed smart vending machine company SOS partners with Ulta
Ulta Beauty is launching a new in-store sampling program with SOS Partners, a personal products vending machine company founded by co-CEOs Susanna Twarog and Robina Verbeek.
Members of Ulta’s rewards program will be able to claim one free travel-size skincare, haircare or cosmetics sample every week from the machines. Non-members can create an account at the machine to receive a sample.
Twarog and Verbeek founded SOS in 2017 as an updated way to vend personal care and beauty products.
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Truth or Consequences’ sole movie theater offers more than film to residents
Built in the 1930s, new ownership wants to return the El Cortez Theater to its “glory days.”
Opinion: California should step up enforcement of flavored tobacco ban
Since last December, the sale of flavored tobacco products has been explicitly prohibited. However, the enforcement of this regulation has been lacking, to say the least.
Los Angeles hospitality group to move global headquarters to Miami
Nobel 33 said it will open four new restaurants in the Miami area next year as part of its South Florida expansion.
Federal Realty reveals Austin Grill replacement in West Springfield, shows how former Whole Foods space will be divvied up
Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) is filling the void left by Whole Foods Market in West Springfield, lining up a quartet of new tenants with more space available, and finally inking a deal to replace a neighborhood favorite restaurant that served its last taco more than a year ago.
A freshly updated leasing brochure for Old Keene Mill Shopping Center, 8424 Old Keene Mill Road, shows the former Whole Foods Market space carved up into six new tenant spaces. One, at 24,184 square feet, is…
Weckerly’s Ice Cream in Fishtown to close after 11 years in operation
A store Weckerly's Ice Cream co-operates in West Philadelphia will also shutter.
Flocale, a Westshore Pizza and King of the Coop mashup in Seminole Heights, has closed
King of the Coop owner Joe Dodd hopes to open nearby within a week; Westshore Pizza's future is still in discussions, said franchisee Travis Masters.
Sam Fox brings neighborhood restaurant to new 12South development
Phoenix-based Fox Restaurant Concepts latest Nashville project is in 12South. CEO Sam Fox’s Nashville portfolio includes Doughbird Pizza & Chicken, The Twelve Thirty Club, Pushing Daises and Blanco + Cantina.