Davis Sq Task Force meets Monday 2/11

[ron_newman]

The Davis Square Task Force will meet this Monday, February 11, at 7 pm at the Tufts Administration Building, 167 Holland Street. Here's the agenda:

7-7:05 - Introductions

7:05-7:20 - Neighborhood Groups Update
- Somerville Climate Action/Go Green Davis Square
- Local First Initiative
- Davis Area Resident Business Initiative

7:20-7:55 - CARLI Fence site

7:55-8:25 -Davis Square Development
- Antonia’s Restaurant space: Krista Kranyak from Ten Tables Restaurant
- Property on Highland Ave and Enterprise Lot
- Possible Blue Shirt Café expansion/Dollar Days
- Dover Plaza
- Dahn Yoga studio
- Sushi restaurant opening where La Contessa used to be

8:25-8:50 -Future Search Concept (Vanessa Rule)
“Where does our community want to go?”

8:50-9 - Miscellaneous items and next meeting date

ETA, 2/14: My notes from the meeting are here.

Comments

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

The big, big difference is that the Aquarium was in very close proximity to residences (just above the ex-Yoga studio, just behind on the odd side of wallace, just across the parking lot on the even side of Wallace, and just across Holland). Elm St., on the other hand, has only businesses, I think, in the entire block between Elm and Holland, and between Elm and Herbert, and about halfway down the long block between Elm and Cottage. I don't yet have an opinion whether the late night atmosphere, which I've noticed too, is good for the square, and I've no idea how it is for the closest neighbors, but the same ambiance at the Aquarium is very different. The folks at Orleans have been quite neighborly, and I hope that continues since a nightclub atmosphere there would have a much greater effect on much nearer neighbors.

[ron_newman]

The worst problem with the Aquarium was that it played loud, live music late into the night, while sharing a party wall with a residential condominiium. The club owners did not seem to care in the least about the condo dweller, who could not sleep and actually had to move out until the Aquarium was shut down.