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

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

i wrote gus & this is what he said:

Dear Laura,

Thanks for the note. I don't want to close The Someday. There's a
lot of confusion right now and I'm spending as much time calming people
down as anything else.

Our lease is up in September but we were required to notify the
landlord back in February. For small tenants like the SD the landlord
calls up and says "what do you want to do?" Our landlord waited for us
to miss the deadline and then waited some more. On Friday he gave us
65 days or so to leave. I think he's sick of the SD and sees an
opportunity to install a better-paying tenant. The building across the
street from the SD has been emptied. A CVS and a Boston Sports Club
are moving in.

I missed the deadline. He is within the letter of the law and the
contract but is being ingenuous about what he is doing. He could have
asked me in a phone call, a letter, an email, or even personally. He's
sick of the SD loud music, the recent influx of halfway house residents
and other things.

I think there are a number of things that might happen including a
change of mind on his part but it will not be accomplished by people
screaming at him, tying up his office telephones or acting in
obnoxious ways. I'm not sure what to do. A petition? Email? I'm
being chased around by journalists who are understandably interested.

More soon.

Gus

[ron_newman]

I got the same reply from him. (But I didn't post it here because I wasn't sure he wanted that.)

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

ah, yeah, hopefully he doesn't mind! i just thought it was a nice response.

[nalz.livejournal.com]

Not to be a pain in the ass - I liked Someday alright - but what did he expect? If I didn't tell my landlord I was going to renew after they asked me and I *knew* it was coming up...I certainly wouldn't be shocked if they found someone else and I had to leave when my lease was up. Something just doesn't add up there.