Cupcake Pop-Up at Social Wines

From Social Wines: 

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Kickass Cupcakes will take over the tasting room on Valentine’s Day from 5PM to 8PM. These are not the cupcakes you brought to school as a kid (if you did the 3rd grade would have been a lot more fun!) Kickass Cupcakes bakes every day in small batches with the freshest ingredients and no artificial flavors, no trans fats, no hydrogenated oils or preservatives. Just real-ingredient cupcakes with a “spiked” twist. Some of their creations include:  

Ltd. Edition The Sammy - Chocolate cupcake, beer ganache center, Sam Adams cream stout icing drizzled with caramel

Caramel Mochiatto - chocolate cupcake, caramel center and mocha frosting topped with chocolate covered espresso beans. Because we asked nicely they’re making a special cupcake only available at Social Wines - made with South Boston’s local distillery's FirePuncher Vodka!

Social Wines
52 West Broadway St
Boston, MA 02210

Blue Dragon Progress

Blue Dragon gets a coat of paint and a weathervane:

Hotels on D Street Mtg, Mon, 1/14

 “D StreetHotels”

South Boston

COMMUNITY MEETING

The

 Boston Redevelopment Authority & the MCCA/BCEC

Will Be Presenting the Plans for  New Hotels along D Street

Monday January 14th

6:30 to 8:00 PM

@

The BCEC / Room 154

(Convention Center)

TODAY: Fort Point Stroll and FPAC Holiday Sale

This weekend (Fri, Sat, and Sun) is FPAC's annual holiday sale and today is the Fort Point Stroll:

Fort Point Arts Community Holiday Sale
Opening Reception: Friday, December 14th, 5-8pm
Midway Studios, 15 Channel Center Street

Holiday Sale: Saturday and Sunday  11am-4pm

FREE TO THE PUBLIC
FREE PARKING

http://www.fortpointarts.org/open-studios/holiday-sale/

Fort Point Holiday Stroll

Friday, Dec 14th, 4-8pm

 

Neighborhood businesses will be open for a unique evening of shopping, with special offers, discounts, and holiday treats for all.

Stops include:

A Street Frames, 251 A Street
-$25.00 gift certificate for custom framing

Accidental Gallery, 300 Summer Street
-Decorate your own ornament and refreshments by Channel Café

Barlow’s Restaurant, 241 A Street
- Complimentary cup of clam chowder

Barrington Coffee, 346 Congress Street (4-7pm)
- Free small drip coffee or decaf
– Free hot cocoa if you are shorter than the oxcart wheel

Bob’s Your Uncle, 25 Channel Center
 -Susy Pilgrim Waters Opening Reception 

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, Congress Street Bridge
- Complimentary hot tea and cookies (one per guest)

Channel Fitness, 303 Congress Street
-Stop by to pick up a free 1 week pass

Flour Bakery and Café, 12 Farnsworth Street
-mini gingerbread cakes

Fort Point Framers, 300 Summer Street
-Bring your digital file for a free high-quality
8×10” print! Refreshments by Channel Café

Fort Point Market, 369 Congress Street
-Wine and Patron tasting

Front, 25 Channel Center
-Discount on select items

Drink, 348 Congress Street
-Hot Beverages

Made in Fort Point, 30 Channel Center
-Made in Fort Point, The FPAC Store: 10% off any one item
-Floral Lab: Free paper white lily in a glass kit ($10 retail value) for the first 10 customers who spend $25 on a Floral Lab item

Menton, 354 Congress Street
-$50 coupon valid from January – end of February

Midway Studios, 15 Channel Center Street
-Opening Reception for “RED PLATFORM” 5-8 p.m.
-Fort Point Arts Community Holiday Sale Preview:
25 artists selling jewelry, paintings, pottery, prints, photography, holiday decorations and cards, and more

Sportello, 348 Congress Street
- free delicious pastries

Tavern Road (New restaurant , 343 Congress Street
-Warm beverages from Tavern Road (while supplies last)

The Barking Crab, 88 Sleeper Street
-Eggnog White Russian featured drink $10

Twelve Chairs, 319 A Street
-Come rock around the 10′ Christmas tree at the holiday party

Reception at Bob's Your Uncle Gallery this Friday

A message from Michele Yeeles:

I hope you can join us this Friday 4-8pm with the talented Susy Pilgrim Waters for her reception at Bob's Your Uncle Gallery. 

It's also Friends of Fort Point's Holiday Stroll and FPAC's Holiday Sale (the holiday sale is also on Saturday and Sunday 11-4. Susy's show and Front will open 11-4 over the weekend too). 

It's a great weekend to shop, sip and stroll around Fort Point. Hope to see you!

Made in Fort Point Re-Opening Party Tonight

 

 Please join us this evening, Thursday, December 6th, to celebrate Made in Fort Point's NEW location, from 5-8pm. 

 

Enjoy complimentary refreshments, including a tasting with new Fort Pointers Trillium Brewing, and samplings of Bow & Sparrow cookies.

 

Meet the makers, mingle, and get a jump on your holiday shopping.

 

30 Channel Center Street

corner of A and Mt. Washington Streets

just past Barlow's Restaurant

 

http://www.fortpointarts.org/posts/made-in-fort-point/

 

 

Ground Floor Retail in Boston

Boston Magazine writer Paul McMorrow has an interesting article on the design of the financial district called The Empty Quarter.  It looks at how the design and planning of the financial district has caused it's recent emptying out.  I think it's relevant to Fort Pointers, given developers here have been pushing to have projects which follow the same pattern McMorrow argues caused the current emptiness of the financial district:

In other words, no one back then was worrying about what it was like to walk the city blocks, or whether there were enough first-floor retail spaces to engage the people who worked above. As a result, Financial District towers have huge empty lobbies and no amenities. Without life at the pedestrian level, these behemoths turn a cold, blank face to the neighboring sidewalks, making the prospect of walking among them a miserable experience. That fact goes a long way toward explaining why chicken-salad shops and falafel stands are the only food offerings here—workers just grab a sandwich and then run back inside.

The banks that built the Financial District abandoned it long ago, taking their lower-level office jobs with them to the suburbs, or even overseas. The knowledge industries that have replaced finance as the city’s main economic driver depend on attracting young, mobile, urban-minded workers. And that has put the Financial District at a competitive disadvantage when companies look for office space in Boston.
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Why should we care? Cities feed off vibrant downtowns, and cities that matter have downtowns that matter. Downtown rot metastasizes: Whether it’s in Detroit or the blocks around the pit that was once Filene’s, dark, dysfunctional blocks chase pedestrians away, driving businesses out in the process. Blight spreads, while money chases money. That’s why Kevin White poured his energies into raising the Financial District’s office towers, and why the mess on the former Filene’s site on Washington Street generated howls from Charlestown to Mattapan. A city can’t claim to be world class if it’s hollow at the core.

 

Read the full article here:
 http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/11/empty-financial-district-boston/

Boston Fire Museum Flies the Flag

The Boston Fire Museum has started flying the American flag.  Hat tip to Dan O'Neill for the photo.

Harbor Association mtg, 11/27

TBHA's Annual Meeting: Boston's Waterfront After Hurricane Sandy 5-7 pm

http://www.tbha.org/enterprise-event/join-us-tbhas-annual-meeting-bostons-waterfront-after-hurricane-sandy-5-7-pm

 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 12:00

Location: 

Bingham, One Federal Street, Boston MA

Register: 

Event Registration

 

Superstorm Sandy was a stunning wake-up call for coastal communities in the Northeast, even those such as Boston that escaped the worst of the storm's impact.  As New York governor Andrew Cuomo said, "Part of learning from this is the recognition that climate change is a reality, extreme weather is a reality … There’s only so long you can say, ‘This is once in a lifetime and it’s not going to happen again.’"
Please join TBHA's trustees, staff and members at our annual meeting on November 27th from 5 to 7 pm at the law offices of Bingham, One Federal Street, Boston (nearest T station:  South Street).  Bingham is generously providing refreshments.
After a social hour and a brief business meeting, TBHA's president Vivien Li, and UNH professor Dr. Paul Kirshen will lead a discussion of the current science behind sea level rise, what we can expect over the next century, and what can be done to make Boston's waterfront and downtown more resilent to coastal flooding.
Please note that Hurricane Sandy did postpone TBHA's board meeting where we would have voted on our annual awards; they will instead be given out at our fundraiser in April.
Space is limited, so please RSVP early.  We hope to see you there!

Boston Innovation Center Mtg Tuesday

This the new building under construction across from One Marina Park Drive.

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Boston Innovation Center

Community Meeting

The Boston Innovation Center, scheduled to be built in 2013, in the Seaport District, is holding a Community Meeting to present their plans for digital signage along the perimeter of their building.

Tuesday November 13th

6:00 PM @

BOSTON TEA PARTY

MUSEUM 

Congress Street Bridge

Landmark Commission Meeting, Thursday

The FORT POINT CHANNEL LANDMARK DISTRICT COMMISSION will hold a public hearing:

Thursday, November 8, 2012
5:30 P.M.
BOSTON CITY HALL
PIEMONTE ROOM

Subject of the hearing will be applications for Certificates of Design Approval on the agenda below, reviews of architectural violations, and such businesses as may come before the commission, in accordance with Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1975, as amended. Applications are available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Environment Department. Sign language interpreters are available upon request. Please ensure that all electronic devices are silenced prior to entering the hearing room. After 5:30 p.m., enter and exit City Hall at the Dock Square entrance on Congress Street (across from Faneuil Hall).

FORT POINT CHANNEL LANDMARK DISTRICT COMMISSION
David Berarducci, Susan Goganian, John Karoff, Yanni Tsipis, Michele Yeeles
Alternates: B.K. Boley, Kosta Ligris
 

REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURAL VIOLATIONS
5:30 PM
320 Summer Street: Removal of a fire escape.

APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
5:45 PM
Application: 13.441 FPC
Applicant: 346 Congress St.
Martin H. Dykas, Designer: Alteration of a previously approved plan to construct a stair head house to make the head house larger by increasing its width.


6:00 PM
Application: 13.442 FPC
Applicant: 22 Boston Wharf Road
Brian S. Grossman, Prince, Lobel, representing T-Mobile Northeast LLC: Installation of telecommunications equipment including an antenna in a new faux vent pipe which will match existing faux vent pipes; remote radio head units at the base of existing and proposed faux vent pipes; an equipment cabinet on an existing equipment platform; and additional cabling.

Romney Campaign at Boston Convention Center Election Night

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Nov. 1, 2012

Dear neighbors,

As you may already know, former Massachusetts Governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be holding his Election Night festivities at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on Nov. 6.

This will likely be one of the busier events we’ve hosted in a single night, with worldwide media attention and thousands of supporters converging on the BCEC. I write this letter to inform you about the event and what impact it could have on you, our neighbors.

The event goes live at 6 a.m. on Nov. 6 and is expected to end by 2 a.m. on Nov. 7. The main Romney event at the BCEC will take place from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. starting on Election Night. TV crews will likely still be using the facility up until about noon on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

US Secret Service, State and Boston police may require road closures around the facility at various times during the event. These closures will likely impact only the immediate roads around the convention center, but if kept in place for a period of time, they could impact traffic in South Boston and Fort Point. We are working with all parties to ensure any impact is minimal. Police presence around the building will likely be elevated during the event.

Also, we are expecting 50 to 75 satellite trucks at the event, all of which will be parked on the BCEC’s West Side Drive adjacent to the building. All should likely be gone by the end of day on Nov. 7.

Should you have any questions or concerns, I ask that you contact Robert O’Shea, the MCCA’s community liaison, at 617-954-2328 or the MCCA Public Safety Department at 617-954-2222.

Regards,

Jim Rooney

Executive Director

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority