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"Oath Craft Pizza" proposed to replace Singer sewing machine store
As reported earlier, the Singer sewing machine shop at the corner of Elm and Day streets is moving to West Cambridge. The new prospective tenant is a 16-seat superfast-order restaurant called Oath Craft Pizza.
Here are the submitted plan and the city planning staff report. (Though I see only 13 seats in the diagram.)
From the planning report: "This pizza establishment is providing a different kind of experience by using super-efficient ovens to cook craft pizza in 90 seconds. "
They currently have two locations, Nantucket and South Station, but want to grow into a real chain.
Oath Craft Pizza Has Aggressive Growth Plans for Boston, Starting With South Station (Eater.com, 8/11/15)
The smallest pizzeria ever is opening in South Station (Boston Business Journal, 10/22/15)
Here are the submitted plan and the city planning staff report. (Though I see only 13 seats in the diagram.)
From the planning report: "This pizza establishment is providing a different kind of experience by using super-efficient ovens to cook craft pizza in 90 seconds. "
They currently have two locations, Nantucket and South Station, but want to grow into a real chain.
Oath Craft Pizza Has Aggressive Growth Plans for Boston, Starting With South Station (Eater.com, 8/11/15)
The smallest pizzeria ever is opening in South Station (Boston Business Journal, 10/22/15)
RE: lack of due diligence by planning staff
jlauspitz is theorizing that the city hasn't looked at Oath's menu, their service offerings, or their uniqueness compared to other pizza shops. That's both unfair and born out of paranoia.
Re: lack of due diligence by planning staff
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RE: lack of due diligence by planning staff
On the due diligence point: If the staff had systematically compared menus of Davis Square pizza purveyors they would surely have noted it in the public record, because (as you point out) it strengthens the case for their conditional* support of the Special Permit. They would appear to have relied instead on a news clip about Oath's South Station outlet that highlighted the ovens. Livejournal discussion has already gone beyond this.
[*One material condition is that Oath underwrite the cost of four parking meters as a parking/traffic mitigation measure. The meters must accept both coins and credit cards. They obviously have a good lawyer.]
RE: lack of due diligence by planning staff
RE: lack of due diligence by planning staff
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