Like everyone else, we’ve been scrambling to get a better understanding from SBA Preferred Lenders regarding the Paycheck Protection Program of the CARES ACT. This is the best summary we have got to date, which comes by way of a banker at People’s United Bank.
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State Senator Jamie Eldridge has filed an action to make insurance companies pay for coronavirus closures. It could be a “game changer.”
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We need the Governor and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to fully grasp the magnitude of the crisis restaurants are facing now, and will have to face when this madness subsides.
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At the same time as all of this, each of us have all been balancing ordinary work (and thankful to have it) with family (even more thankful to have it) obligations.
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Food & Wine published a candid, forward-looking call to action from our dear friend, Chef Matthew Jennings.
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The major events of life, personal and professional, are celebrated in restaurants. Acquaintances become friends around a table in the safe and controlled environment of a restaurant. Individuals become lovers across a restaurant table, sometimes.
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Small businesses impacted by COVID-19 will have access to capital assistance.
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Working at a Boston-based family real estate company, I’m fortunate to call some of these businesses our tenants. But this past weekend it became clear that squirreling away gift cards and ordering take out would not be enough.
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Governor Charlie Baker has banned on-site consumption until April 6, and emotions run from “destroyed” to “relieved.”
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We recently received this District Impact Study, concerning Central Square businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.
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