Someday Café will CLOSE by August 15
Jun. 26th, 2006 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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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Someday Cafe
Date: 2006-06-28 09:39 pm (UTC)I own The Someday and right off the bat I would tell people not to call Richard at Chatham Light. Annoying him by tying up his phone is counterproductive. There is a groundswell of support for The Someday. We would like to stay and hope to reach an accomdation with Richard.
Our lease required us to notify Richard in February of our intention to renew the lease. In all my years of business this has been accomplished by a landlord calling up and asking if you want to renew. Richard held to the letter of the law. I think he's being disingenous when he says he hadn't heard from us and didn't know what to do. Then he waited until June 21 to tell us that we have to leave by September 1.
Richard and his family have been patient and helpful with The Someday in the past. We want to stay and that requires an agreement between his company and The Someday. There's a meeting in Somerville tonight at 167 Holland Street, starting at 7PM. Its a meeting of the Davis Square Task Force.
Many news organizations are interested in this story including The Somerville Journal and The Boston Globe and the Weekly Dig and NPR.
I'm hoping for a happy resolution and being polite about achieving that.