Someday Café will CLOSE by August 15

[ron_newman]

I just came back from Someday, and confirmed the bad news. The café has not renewed its lease with the landlord (Chatham Light Realty), and the café's owner (Gus Rancatore, of Toscanini's ice cream) is disinclined to reopen it elsewhere in Davis Square. Unless someone changes his mind, the café must vacate by August 15, and most likely will close around August 1.

If you don't want this to happen, call Richard at Chatham Light, 617-354-4466 , and e-mail gus@tosci.com .

(for earlier discussion, see the post immediately below this one.)

[EDIT (6/27, 12:10 am): after exchanging e-mail and a phone call with Ian Judge, the manager of the Somerville Theatre, I have edited this post so that it no longer says that "the landlord is making them leave". Ian's statement is here. I'm going to leave the phone number and e-mail address in place; they came from a sign at the Someday's counter last night.]

Comments

[karmaportrait.livejournal.com]

so they're the best of the worst.... that's positive i suppose. i just object to the monoculture of a starbucks every four blocks.

and i don't think they are different in purpose - they're both coffeehouses.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

If you are talking about making a "vote" with your money on the kind of community you want with your dollars then I think they do serve different purposes.

I want local independent business. So sometimes I "vote" that way.

I also want large, stable companies that behave ethically and with an eye toward social justice. So sometimes I "vote" that way.

Often small business doesn't have the clout or resources to do large-scale amounts of good or corporate culture shifting and lots of times large companies have a soul-sucking effect on the local landscape.

I'm saying they both add and subtract value from my coffeehouse experience and that I think that they can peacefully co-exist.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

amen.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Wordy McWord.

[maxroswell.livejournal.com]

Without a doubt, that's the most clear-headed thing I've read since this Someday/Starbucks brouhaha broke.