"Oath Craft Pizza" proposed to replace Singer sewing machine store

[ron_newman]

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)

Comments

Re: lack of due diligence by planning staff

[ron_newman]

Trash is a legit issue, but I don't see any relationship at all between creating a plaza in front of Mike's and approving this somewhat competing pizza place across the street.

I'm willing to give this place a chance to succeed or fail on its own.

RE: Re: lack of due diligence by planning staff

[jlauspitz.livejournal.com]

The planning staff seems to be requiring a traffic study without this scenario. One infers either that it is not aware of it, or that the City has put the reinvestment plan for Davis Square on a back burner.

Re: lack of due diligence by planning staff

[ron_newman]

The traffic study is focused on parking, and I don't think any parking spaces are being removed by replacing the left-turn slip lane with a plaza in front of Mike's.

RE: Re: lack of due diligence by planning staff

[jlauspitz.livejournal.com]

As I recall the consultants also broached the idea of eliminating whole parking lanes on Highland or Elm, or both. But perhaps the underlying issue is that the City has shelved the Davis infrastructure reinvestment plans.