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Lamberts
reports that it’s not true?
WTF
It's completely inconvenient for me in Brighton, but I started going to the Westwood Lambert's as my replacement for Russo's. I even started using the Westwood Wegmans as a replacement for the Chestnut Hill one on those days that I went all that way for produce.
And he may have extended the lease 10 years, but that's meaningless if someone buys it and converts it to something else. Unless the paperwork says they have to run a grocer, I don't see the relevance to him renewing the leases at both places for 10 years.
Magoo sez
Magoo went on a vision walk in the wee hours of this good morning. Magoo saw doves and crocodilian hominids. It ‘twas incredible. Magoo.
Which was it, Magoo?
Shrooms or acid?
I used to like Lamberts
But their employees had a real bad attitude about wearing masks while there was a mask mandate, especially at the deli counter.
We need a new Neponset Station and that is one of the perfect locations for it.
Cry me a river.
Cry me a river.
They Are Not Going Anywhere
Yes, the property is up for sale.
However, the property is up for sale with leases in place for the buildings on site. That means, the main store, the "Puritan Mall" (SewFisticated, Rainbow, etc. and the offices above) are not leaving.
They are selling it as an investment. They sell to an investor who will collect the rents and pay the bills. The Lambert family, which is now a few generations in, split the money from any sale which might occur.
This is no different that a CVS going up for sale where an entity buys the property and CVS pays rent to the ownership.
Stop with your fantasies of "They should build a spaceport, a soccer field for the Revs and a kennel" here. The stores aren't going anywhere for at least 10 years.
Lambert's is great. They gave a lot of people who may have gone the wrong way in Dot their first job. I know people who are approaching 40 years with them.
Hope you're right! Their
Hope you're right! Their departure would blow a giant hole in Dorchester.
whew
Our annual family tradition of gathering we few remaining Bostonian cousins to bowl then go pick out holiday trees can continue.
"will stay open"
Phew.
The Westwood location is a regular haunt of mine.
Difficult to prove
It's possible he's glad-talking.
The lease is for the next 10 years. But it's the terms of the lease that are going to determine if Lambert's stays open for those 10 years...or even if a grocer is going to be there for the next 10 years.
Just because the businesses have a right to stay there for 10 years doesn't mean they have to stay the same services necessarily. I'm not even sure it requires they stay the same buildings (as long as during any construction/renovation the terms of the lease are met, like comparable space built, etc.). It would depend on the terms in the lease(s). And I'd be a bit surprised anyone leasing commercial space wouldn't put in a buy-out option or something to get out of the lease if they wanted to liquidate or replace everything if something more lucrative came along.
You'd have to dig through the legalese of the purchase to determine what is going to be mandated of the new owner(s). Maybe he's telling us what's in the lease...or maybe he's just trying to stem off any bad tidings and workers jumping ship until it's all finalized. We won't know until it happens.
but spill the tea
What are the legal reasons?
Family Trust
My guess is that the family as a whole has voted to dissolve the trust and, if any of them want to maintain the business, their share alone isn't enough to do so.
I hadn't noticed before that
I hadn't noticed before that the Brockton location was no longer open. From Google maps it appears that it disappeared between 2015 and 2016.