D²: "Reincarnation" of Pluto

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

Melissa, who many of you will remember from Pluto, is opening a store in what used to be the RJ Cody store - 409 Highland Avenue.  The name of it will be D², and it will be similar to the old Pluto that so many of us miss!

 

Unfortunately, the bad news mentioned in the comments to the previous post (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/852288.html) on this subject was true.  The JP Pluto store has closed.  One of the owners of Pluto was very ill, and he recently passed away.  

Melissa is a Davis Square resident who is very excited about being in business here again, especially in a neighborhood which is the new home of two other great stores, Comicazi and Magpie.   I’m really looking forward to the opening of  D² (probably June).  I think we have enough food and drink here (although I love the idea of Kick*ss Cupcakes down the road); it will be nice to have another place to buy fun gifts, etc.

Comments

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

That's good news and bad news (that she is reopening and that he passed away).

Must be tough to run a small, storefront business, esp. in the quirky "dead zones" of Highland, etc. I wonder if banding together to do some sort of "First Friday" sale type thing like galleries do would increase traffic/presence and have shared advertising through some sort of coupon booklety thing.

I had a silly business idea the other day in posting @ the lack of a place around here to by decent bread: a "What You Want" store. We would stock what you want- bread/bagels from Iggy's, assortment's from Trader Joe's, cool sun glasses, and basically whatever (enough) people wanted. It would be a fun experiment..before going completely broke...

But to satisy my curiosity, what would you want that you can't get easily around here?

[ron_newman]

would be nice to have a place to buy men's clothes and shoes.

[ursamajor]

What's this about kickass cupcakes? *perks up*