What business do you want to see open in Jamaica Plain next year?
In 2012, Jamaica Plain saw the opening of a new burger restaurant, but what would you like to see in 2013? A sporting goods store? A paper products supplier? Perhaps another new restaurant? Leave your opinion for a new Jamaica Plain business in the comments.
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Developers say the 49-seat restaurant will be a “morning business and a night business.”
In the vacant lots of Washington Street in Forest Hills there’s typically vehicle traffic and little else. Though, alongside the addition of the Harvest Co-Op, a new café will soon fill out the space. Kevin Walker, president of WCI Corp., presented plans to build a 49-seat café at 3840 Washington St., which is now a lot south of the Forest Hills T station, at a meeting of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association Wednesday afternoon. BAPA member Jeffrey Ferris, owner of Ferris Wheels bike shop, said the area is a particularly difficult place to open a restaurant. “You don’t have the benefit of being near a residential neighborhood,” he said. Walker called the café a “morning business and a night business,” adding that he …
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4:19 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
This is great for the neighborhood and I look forward to more businesses and residential development in the immediate Forest Hills Station area. The cafe is a little out of the way from the others side of the tracks by way of Ukraine Way but maybe this will encourage construction of a pedestrian/bike bridge from the end of Walk Hill St. to Washington St. I understand that Mr. Ferris really likes … more ›
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7:30 am on Monday, December 31, 2012
An all vegetarian/vegan diner like Veggie Galaxy. more ›