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Dec 11, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Flour Bakery will fill the empty Boston Common Concessions Pavilion, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department announced Wednesday. “Flour Bakery will be a great fit for this treasured space in our country’s oldest public park, the Boston Common,” Wu said in a news release.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Curriculum Associates employees used to have so many meetings that their calendars were booked solid weeks in advance. People would join Zoom calls a few minutes late, frantically apologizing for needing to run to the bathroom. Sari Laberis, the North Billerica education technology company’s director of educator community, remembers staring longingly at the water bottle on her desk that had been empty for hours because she hadn’t had a chance to fill it up between meetings.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Now, Henry Minsky is carrying on the family legacy as chief technology officer of Leela AI, whose software analyzes video footage and gives companies recommendations for improving efficiency and safety. It uses a new method of visual intelligence, for which a patent was approved last month. Still in the seed stage, the startup has its eyes on more venture capital funding and three more patents pending.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
BRAINTREE — Black Friday shoppers flocked to the South Shore Plaza mall on Friday, joining millions of people across the country scoping out deals on clothes, electronics, and more. The National Retail Federation estimated over 183 million people would shop in stores and online this Thanksgiving holiday weekend — up from 182 million last year — with 131.7 million expected to shop on Friday alone.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Shoppers in Downtown Crossing will see new signs of holiday cheer this Christmas season: 16-foot-tall animal-headed nutcracker figures that light up at night. The Downtown Boston Alliance, a business group, invested in the 12 figurines, which include an elephant and a unicorn, with the hope they become a quirky annual tradition attracting locals and tourists alike to the shopping district.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
The new Bosse pickleball supercenter, which opened to the public Tuesday, boasts a 100,000 square foot pickleball kingdom, or “pickledom,” with 21 pickleball courts, a fitness center, a pickleball merchandise store, darts, golf simulators, and a sports theater. Also within the premises: an Italian restaurant, a French cafe, courtside dining, a sports bar — and even a child care center.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Three years into its anticipated seven-year timeline, construction is well underway on Massachusetts General Hospital’s massive new $1.9 billion clinical care facility on its Boston campus. At over 1.5 million square feet, the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building will house the Mass General Cancer Center and the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center. Its two inpatient towers will contain 482 single-bed rooms, and the facility will include rooms for operations, imaging, infusions, and exams.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum |Neena Hagen
Many Thanksgiving hosts will adapt their plans and shopping habits this year to account for high grocery costs, according to two nationwide industry reports released this week. But the holiday’s importance to consumers means plentiful feasts and celebratory gatherings remain on the table for many. “If they’re hosting, it’s because it’s been something that’s been a big part of their family or cultural tradition,” said Justin Cook, Deloitte’s US consumer products research leader based in Boston.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Stella Tannenbaum
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“While there may be some limited inventory for certain products, we are working to re-stock our shelves and anticipate item availability to continue to improve over the next few days,” Stop & Shop spokesperson Caroline Medeiros said in an email.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum
Customers are seeing empty shelves this week at many Stop & Shop locations across Massachusetts after the stores’ parent company said last week it was contending with a cybersecurity issue. Just over a week before Thanksgiving, large sections of the chicken and produce shelves at a Stop & Shop in Hyde Park were bare on Sunday. There were also vacant shelves at the store in Pembroke on Saturday.
