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Watertown Business Parking Passes Available, Deadline Approaching

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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department:

The City of Watertown sells a limited number of parking permits to local business owners/employees on a quarterly basis. The purchase of the quarterly parking permits for the Watertown Square Municipal Lot & the Nichols Avenue Municipal Lot for January – March 2023 will be available on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Business permits cost $120 a quarter (Price subject to change) and can be paid via cash or check. Limit two (2) permits per business

Forty (40) available for the Watertown Square lot, 20 available for the Nichols Ave lot on a first come first serve basis. To purchase please enter the building and proceed to the Treasurer/Collectors Office. ALL permits will require business information (i.e. proof of employment), current license and valid vehicle registrations to obtain a permit.

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Watertown Cable Offering Sponsorship Opportunities to Local Businesses

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The following announcement was provided by Watertown Cable Access:

WCA-TV is excited to announce that we’re now offering sponsorship opportunities! As a non-profit, we cannot advertise or run any paid programming on our channels. However, we can offer sponsorships to businesses in Watertown for broadcast on our channels, website, and community bulletin board. In addition, we can offer sponsorship of a specific program or underwriting for various sporting events. With over 7,500 subscribers and hundreds of viewers online, this is a unique way to benefit your business while also supporting the community!

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Watertown Business Coalition Fall Fest Features Local Vendors & Food

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Join the Watertown Business Coalition for Fall Fest on Nov. 17 from 6-8 p.m. at the Commander’s Mansion. Bringing together Watertown residents and the business community and kicking off Shop Watertown! Several local businesses, artists and others will sell items on the second floor of the mansion to kick off Shop Watertown (including Eastern Clothing, BLING and others). A coupon to use with the vendors will be included with the price of the ticket.

Business

Booty by Brabants Opens Pop-Up Store in Arsenal Yards

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Booty by Brabants opened a pop-up shop in Watertown’s Arsenal Yards. The following information is provided by Arsenal Yards:

Arsenal Yards, the thriving new neighborhood located along the Charles River in Watertown, is excited to announce the development’s latest addition: a new Booty by Brabants Pop-Up Shop now open in Arsenal Yard’s Bond Square. A female-founded company known for its community-driven, inclusive approach and strong e-commerce business that has attracted consumers globally, local “athleisure” brand Booty by Brabants will expand its brick-and-mortar presence just in time for the holidays with the opening of it’s 13th storefront to-date. Shoppers can expect an intimate, boutique-meets-warehouse experience with much of the same inventory available online, in addition to in-store perks such as early access to new product releases and the brand’s biggest Black Friday sale yet. 

“With permanent stores currently open on the North Shore and South Shore, my goal with this third location was to bring convenience to my customers during the holiday season,” said Booty by Brabants Founder and CEO, Kelly Brabants. “We can be last minute shoppers, and I wanted my city customers to have easy access to a BBB shopping destination, where I’ve hand-picked my favorite pieces at the moment that I know my customers will love.”

Before or after they shop at the new Booty by Brabants location, visitors are invited to check out Arsenal Yards’ fitness and wellness offerings, including Pure Barre, sweetgreen, Vitality Bowls, Garbanzo, and the newly-opened Central Rock Gym.

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Watertown Company Creating Way to Dramatically Cut the Number of Pills Patients Take

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Lyndra TherapeuticsA prototype of Lyndra’s stellate medical platform is placed in a machine to undergo stress testing. A company with headquarters in the East End of Watertown will soon start the final trials for a way of delivering drugs that would allow patients to take just one pill a week instead of seven pills or more. And the company is working on technology that could cut it to just two or even one a pill a month. Lyndra Therapeutics moved to its space on Grove Street in 2017, and employs nearly 130 people there, in Lexington, or who work remotely. The company also helps train the next generation of life scientists by working with students from colleges in the area, and has also started reaching out to classes at Watertown High School.

Business

Discuss the Future of Business in Watertown at Upcoming Event

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Local residents, business owners, employees and others are invited to add their voice to the City of Watertown’s effort to shape the future of business in Watertown at an event hosted by the Watertown Business Coalition. On Oct. 19 the WBC will host a networking event where City officials and consultants working on updating the Comprehensive Plan, Watertown’s primary planning document. The plan covers many areas, but the event focuses on business. The event will be at the Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Bigelow Chapel.

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Longtime Owner of Meat Spot Retiring, Passing on Business

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Charle BreitroseDick Ucuz, who has owned The Meat Spot for 32 years, will be retiring soon. He has sold the business and the new owners will keep the deli and butcher shop going. For more that three decades, Dick Ucuz has served up sandwiches, cut fresh meat, and provided other edible delights from The Meat Spot. This week is one of his last at the business that has been in Watertown Square for more than a century. Fans of The Meat Spot can be comforted that the business has been sold to new owners who will continue to serve the same favorites.

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Watertown Company Acquired by Major Pharmaceutical Firm

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The following announcement came from Novo Nordisk:

Novo Nordisk and Forma Therapeutics, Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FMTX) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Novo Nordisk will acquire Forma Therapeutics for USD 20 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of USD 1.1bn. Forma Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on transforming the lives of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) and rare blood disorders. The acquisition of Forma Therapeutics, including its lead development candidate, etavopivat, is aligned with Novo Nordisk’s strategy to complement and accelerate its scientific presence and pipeline in haemoglobinopathies, a group of disorders in which there is abnormal production or structure of the haemoglobin protein in the red blood cells. “Novo Nordisk has worked for more than 40 years to develop and deliver transformative medicines to patients around the world with rare and devastating diseases. By adding Forma’s differentiated approach to address unmet needs for patients, we are taking a step forward in enhancing our sickle cell disease pipeline,” said Ludovic Helfgott, executive vice president and head of Rare Disease at Novo Nordisk.