Boston Bead Company

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

While biking on Holland St today (shortly after a car accident at the corner of Elmwood -- anyone know anything about that? Nobody appeared to be hurt.), I noticed Boston Bead Company at 75 Holland, the corner of Irving. They used to be in Harvard Square but when their lease came up for renewal, the rent was too (damn) high, so they moved here. Lucky them to be moving from just about the only place nearby where the rents are even higher than Davis. I think there was a convenience store in that spot before, maybe? I'd only been in it a couple of times, so I'm not sure, and given how often we go to Hodgkins Park, I guess it didn't offer too many conveniences for us, anyway.

It's a nice little shop, obviously only of interest if you're into beading at some level, but I was surprised to not have seen mention of it here already. (Seems far more relevant than a big box chain restaurant opening on the other side of town.) They also do classes. Stop in and say hi!

It feels like there is a lot of turnaround going on right now. There was another closed shop on Elm, too (in the vicinity of Chester, on the other side of the street), though maybe whatever is moving in there has already been covered.


For reasons I now don't recall, it seemed like a good idea to take a picture of the storefront for posting, so here it is:

Comments

nothing was there before

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Or rather, more of Mario's was, but it shrunk.

Re: nothing was there before

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Y'know, first I thought it was a hair place, but then I thought I was wrong. The convenience store is at the corner of Simpson, right?

RE: Re: nothing was there before

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, by the playground, and if it vanished in the last couple of days, all of the kids are going to be upset about losing their italian ice. :)

[ron_newman]

On Elm Street, the former Pinkberry is becoming a sushi and hot-pot place called Yumi (but construction seems to be taking forever), and next door the former Dragon Garden Chinese restaurant is still vacant and for rent. The latter store for a while had a Boston Nightlife Ventures banner in the window, but no longer.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Boston Eater posted recently that Boston Nightlife Ventures was planning to put a new restaurant called Certified Meatball Company there, but has decided to look elsewhere. There weren't any other details about why they moved on.

[ron_newman]

thanks, can you link to that?

[teko.livejournal.com]

Sure thing, here's the link (http://boston.eater.com/2015/8/17/9163189/southern-kin-cookhouse-assembly-row-somerville) and here's (http://boston.eater.com/2015/9/1/9238697/southern-kin-beverage-program-whiskey-somerville) where they mention that they're looking for a new location.. I can't edit my previous post or I'd add it to that.

[ron_newman]

Thanks. For better or worse, LiveJournal doesn't allow editing a comment after someone has replied to it. Wonder why they pulled out?

[ron_newman]

I recall there used to be a store called Beadventurous near Union Square, but they aren't there anymore and I don't know what happened to them.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

What changed is that Mario's used to be twice as big as it is now. They couldn't afford the rent any more so they threw up a wall and the landlord rented the corner space to BBC

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Oh pfft, LJ did not indicate to me that there were already replies on this entry.

I don't bead but I go there when I need to do surgery on my earrings. Sometimes the plating on a french wire will wear down and reveal nickel underneath, which I react to, so I need to replace the hooks with hypoallergenic wires that BBC conveniently sells.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

And as it happens, last time I went to their store in Harvard, it was for stuff to make non-bead jewelry. :)