Someday Café will CLOSE by August 15
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davis_squareI 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.]
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.]
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Date: 2006-06-27 07:23 pm (UTC)Thanks for your reply. The Someday Cafe is the subject of a lot of discussion at LiveJournal:
http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/562783.html
http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/562531.html
I encourage you to join these discussions.
>I think there are a number of things that might happen including a
>change of mind on his part
My impression is that he has already agreed to lease your space to Mr. Crepe, which is also a beloved business in Davis Square (though it has been absent for a year or two). If he backs out of that in order to let you stay, now he has upset a whole new group of people.
The resolution I hope to see is for you to relocate in Davis Square, but I don't know anything about your business model or how well you have been doing at the Someday.