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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — With the Wednesday reopening of the Green Room on Center Street, Northampton has a reinvigorated cocktail experience worthy of any cosmopolitan city.The bar is under the new ownership of Perrin Hendricks, owner of the Berkshire Farm...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Despite pleas from the biggest group opposed to Picture Main Street to pick an alternative design, the City Council officially went on record Thursday in support of the city’s years-in-the-making plan for a $21 million redesign of Main...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Opponents of the current redesign plan for the Picture Main Street project have unveiled an alternative vision for what Northampton’s Main Street should look like, in hopes the city changes its mind before construction officially takes...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

CONCORD, N.H. — In the center of New Hampshire’s capital city of Concord lies its Main Street, overlooked by the city’s historic gold-domed State House building and its accompanying plaza featuring statues of the Granite State’s most notable political...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council on Thursday approved the request for proposals for the former Registry of Deeds property at 33 King St., clearing the way for interested buyers to begin submitting bids for the central downtown property. The property, a...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A prime piece of property in the heart of downtown, vacant for four years, is set to go up for sale this fall.The city plans to sell the former site of the Hampshire County Register of Deeds at 33 King St. to a third party to build a new...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — This weekend, Northampton’s Main Street is looking to get metaphysical.Spill the Tea Sis, which runs two storefronts at 177 and 183 Main St., will host a weekendlong celebration, starting Friday with a one-year anniversary party...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When Patrick Goggins was growing up, downtown Northampton was a rather mild and plain place. There were many vacancies, with the area characterized mostly by stores selling men’s clothing and hardware appliances.“It wasn’t what we would...

By EMILY THURLOW

NORTHAMPTON — When meeting new people, Megan Allen has found herself at times on the receiving end of preconceived notions and incorrect assumptions about her intelligence when she indicates that she grew up in Florida.Defying social expectations like...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A new Mexican restaurant is coming to downtown, taking over the Main Street space formerly occupied by Mama Iguana’s. Mexcalito Taco Bar, a restaurant and bar serving authentic Mexican tacos that opened in Amherst in 2021, expects to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A $19.1 million extensive redesign of Main Street downtown outlined this week calls for removing more than a third of on-street parking, adding bike lanes in both directions and planting new trees throughout the downtown area, all part...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation will host a virtual design public hearing on April 26 to discuss planned reconstruction of downtown set to take place late next year.The series of “Picture Main Street” projects, known as...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The former home of the Daily Hampshire Gazette may soon be the site of a new 109-room hotel that the developer says would bring 50 new jobs to the city.Hotelier Mansour Ghalibaf wants to build an extended-stay hotel with two additional...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — After 64 years on Masonic Street, one of downtown’s longest-running stores has closed.Open since 1958, The Old Book Store turned its final page last month. In a phone interview Tuesday, owner Henry Walz confirmed that he is looking to...

By JACQUELYN VOGHEL

EASTHAMPTON — More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the scene in downtown Easthampton has left some business owners optimistic for the area’s future, though others have been hit by industry-specific hardships or left behind empty...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan — consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Another downtown retail clothing store is going the way of the market: online.Cindy Hackworth, owner of Ci Ci Boutique at 112 Main St., said it no longer makes sense to sell her wares in a permanent brick and mortar space. She’ll close...