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State wins court order to seize Somerville Greek restaurant for non-payment of taxes
By adamg on Wed, 09/20/2023 - 3:51pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today granted the state Department of Revenue authority to seize Opa Greek Yeeros, 378 Highland Ave. in Somerville for non-payment of nearly $1.6 million in back taxes, interest and penalties.
The state alleges the restaurant owes some $850,000 in back excise, withholding and meals taxes dating to 2015 - with the rest of the amount making up interest and penalties.
In a court filing yesterday, the department says it filed a notice it would place a lien on the property last November, and then filed a notice of intent to seize the restaurant in April - and sought to get several banks where it thought it might find Opa's accounts to freeze the money, but without any luck.
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Sadness
I enjoyed their food.
κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια.
κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια.
Is that the old Dolly's space from the 90s?
OMG I felt so sorry for the waitresses on late night duty
Not quite
Tenoch is where Dolly's once was. Opa is a couple doors down Highland Avenue in the same building.
Gotcha, thx
I need a visit to the old neighborhood
Before it was Tenoch, it was
Before it was Tenoch, it was M3, a Southern-style place which, IIRC, was also shut down due to non-payment of taxes.
And before that it was an Italian place, I think called Alfredo's?
M3
That did also get seized, but I think it was for non-payment to either the landlord or vendors, rather than taxes.
What happens to the owner of
What happens to the owner of any rental equipment seized by the state in this raid?:
Magoo sez
When Magoo went to Greece Magoo went to a Greek beach and all the Greek were nude. Magoo luvs luvs luvs nude Greeks of the lady kind so Magoo got nude too and chilled with some nude Greeks of the lady kind. Magoo.
And the assholery keeps on
And the assholery keeps on coming.
You...
...are SO creepy.
You're feeling nice
You're feeling nice today, Ibb? I woulda not been so nice.
My big fat Greek tax bill
My big fat Greek tax bill
After a certain point
Why would they start paying.
I don't think that building is worth 1.6 million, let alone the business.
I'm sure Opa's money is on a nice hilltop in Greece.
Funny you should mention that
Funny you should mention that. I was gonna post this earlier but nah.
If you look up the lot info for that building on Somerville's GIS system..
https://gis.vgsi.com/somervillema/Parcel.aspx?pid=243
Its not owned by this guy. But its owned by another greek person (if Christos Poutahidis isnt a Greek name, I didn't pay attention enough living with a very Greek guy from Somerville for 12 years)
Considering Christos Poutahidis was the original named owner (in 1981) and it now lists some management company, gonna take a guess that Mr P has since passed and now its a holding company managing the property.
Makes me wonder what the connection is to Opa, if any. Just funny how the state couldn't seize Opa's owners bank accounts because there was no money.
And for the record, GIS says this property is assessed at $1,074,000. And thats the assessed value, not the sale value. Considering the price of buildings in Davis Square, I'd guess that would sell for almost the price of what's owed in taxes.
Well of course if Opa's owners owned the entire building.