Boloco for sale?

[ron_newman]

Every so often, I do a Google Blog Search for "Davis Square". When I did so today, I found:

Quick casual café concept in Somerville MA

8 Jan 2008 Located in popular Davis Square, this is a high profile location with excellent visibility and parking and in close proximity to Harvard Square, Inman Square and Porter Square. The site is within... BizQuest.com: Massachusetts Businesses for Sale - http://massachusetts.bizquest.com/page1.html

The listing page itself carries no date, but I'm going to believe Google's "8 Jan 2008", especially since the listing currently appears on page 1 of massachusetts.bizquest.com, making it a very recent listing. It says they are selling the business for $250,000, after having sunk over $600,000 into renovations.

This sure looks like Boloco to me. Anyone know more?

Comments

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

it might not be boloco's fault. carberry's failed in that space and whatsit naturals as well. I think people should stop trying to do food there, there's not enough foot traffic next to the square with all the foot traffic ever.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

The building was built for food--there's never been anything else there.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

(By "never" here I mean "in the last 25+ years"--it was the original Steve's Ice Cream in the 1980s.)

[ron_newman]

Steve's was demolished in order to put up this building, originally for Carberry's.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's always been a food location.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

My father thinks it might have been a car dealership in the 1950s, but he wasn't a frequent visitor to Somerville in those days.

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Right, if you look at some of the Bricks on the side of the building, they are still engraved with the "Carberry's" logo.

[cutieperson]

doesn't mean it can't change now. it would be a fantastic space for small performances. it even has high ceiling & rigging points, which is great for aerialists, and space for that in Boston is sorely lacking.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree the building could work for a lot of other purposes.

But the location has been food for 25+ years, so I doubt the location's at fault.

[cutieperson]

well, the area has changed a lot in that time. there wasn't always an overabundance of options in the square proper... and people weren't quite so lazy 25 years ago; walking an extra two blocks wouldn't have been as big a deal as it is now to some :)

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

People were exactly as lazy 25 years ago, and there were just as many restaurants in Davis Square then. And there was no T station in Davis then, either. Oh, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

Maybe Steve Herrell will make a triumphant return to his old stomping grounds...

[ron_newman]

I suggested that months ago to John Pepper of Boloco -- team up with Steve Herrell so that this location would sell both its current menu and Herrell's Ice Cream. John says he talked to Steve, but I don't know what ever came of the idea after that.

[aki.livejournal.com]

And Benjapon's (now some other name) I believe found that they were just far enough outside the square that they had trouble as well.