Business

Owner of Arsenal Project Buys Another Property in Area

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Boylston Properties, one of the owners of the Arsenal Project, has purchased property down the street from the mall. The group has agreed to purchase a 10-acre parcel at 480 Arsenal St., according to a report on Banker & Tradesman. It is currently used by biotech company 480 Biomedical, but it could be rezoned for residential use, Boylston Properties President William McQuillan told Banker & Tradesman. Along with the mall, the group has purchased the former Charles River Saab dealership and has plans to build a six-story Residence Inn by Marriott hotel in that location. (See details here).

Police/Fire

Truck Driver Trapped by Live Wires After Knocking Down Poles

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A garbage truck driver was trapped after he knocked down poles, and had live electrical wires fall on his truck Wednesday morning. Around 10 a.m., a driver knocked down poles in the area of Templeton Parkway and Mt. Auburn Street. Firefighters responded and, according to scanner reports, put out a transformer fire. Traffic has been closed in Coolidge Square in East Watertown while the poles are being repaired and the area cleaned up.

Business

Watertown Belmont Chamber Hosting Business Breakfast Round Table

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The Watertown Belmont Chamber of Commerce will will host an event at Eastern Bank in Watertown about loan programs to grow your business. The speaker at the Business Breakfast Round Table will be Charles Smith of Eastern Bank. He will talk about the SBA Loan Program which provides entrepreneurs with access to capital, including the 7a and 504 programs.

Bring your business cards so you can network, too. The event is on Wednesday, May 28, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Eastern Bank, 1 Church St. in Watertown.

Government

UPDATED: Watertown Dog Park Opening Soon!

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UPDATED May 25: The dog park is now open. Watertown Recreation Director Peter Centola announced that the new dog park at How Park had a soft opening on Saturday, May 24. Original Story:

The long awaited dog park will soon be open in Watertown, town officials said Monday night. The enclosed area is being built at How Park on Pleasant Street in Watertown. The 200-foot by 100-foot fenced in enclosure should be done soon, Recreation Director Peter Centola told the Town Council during his budget hearing Monday night.

Business

Watertown Nutrition Outlet Offers Supplements at Affordable Prices

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For just over a year, the AMP Nutrition Outlet has been selling health and sports supplements on Arsenal Street. 

The store opened in the space where another supplement section of the UFood Grill that closed. The store offers sports drinks, energy bars, protein and vitamin powders and more, said Store Manager and Watertown resident Connor Grimes. “We are a lot cheaper (than the nutrition chains) and much more knowledgable,” Grimes said. “We order everything in the store and I don’t sell things that I wouldn’t use.” The store is just down the street from a few gyms and one of Watertown’s biggest employers.

Around Town

See Which Vendors Will be at the New Watertown Farmers Market

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Watertown’s first farmers market begins in June and there will be wide variety of vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, seafood and more.The Farmers Market at Arsenal on the Charles will be held weekly from June 5 to Oct. 30 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., rain or shine. It will be located in the Arsenal on the Charles, 311 Arsenal St. in Watertown, on Thornton Avenue, right next to the Arsenal Center for the Arts. “We’re so pleased to have this opportunity to open the Arsenal campus more fully to the Watertown community in such a vibrant way.

Around Town

Watertown Rotary, Middle Schoolers Help Feed the Hungry in Panama

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Members of the Rotary Club of Watertown joined with Watertown Middle School students on May 14 to pack up 10,000 meals for hungry children in Panama. The groups teamed with Stop Hunger Now program, which will send the meals to those who need them. The volunteers filled small bags with vitamins, rice, a soy protein mix and dehydrated vegetables, who then passed them to more volunteers who sealed the bags and put them in boxes. Marc Vermouth, New England Program Manager for Stop Hunger Now, told the volunteers that about 1 in 8 people in the world – 800 million people – are hungry today and 25,000 people die each day from hunger related causes. The ready to make meals will be sent to schools in Panama to provide two-pronged assistance.

Letters

Letter: Town Council Should Adopt Town Manager’s School Budget

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Everyone in Watertown wants strong schools. But the notion that the schools have not been well funded by the Town Manager and Town Council is not true. The basic premise put forward to substantiate that notion is that Watertown spends a lesser percent of its total budget on schools. That idea only masquerades the real reason. We spend less because we have far fewer students to educate.