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Tue. Nov. 20, 2012 More than 40 potential bidders have expressed interest in buying Upper Crust, the bankrupt pizza chain More than 40 potential bidders have expressed interest in buying the Upper Crust pizza business, according to Mark DeGiacomo, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of the Boston-based chain. DeGiacomo plans to auction off leases for all 10 shuttered Upper Crust stores that are part of the bankruptcy, as well as related assets at each location. Details of the auction are still being worked out, but the trustee plans to file a motion to sell early next week.	Advertisement
State Office of Consumer Affairs, local merchants offer some Black Friday shopping tips Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is regarded by many as the official start of the holiday retail season --- and a day when shopping is elevated to an art form --- and, in some cases, a full-contact sport as well. To offer some guidance on how to survive and thrive on Black Friday, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs has teamed up with the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.in drawing up a list of suggestions.
Developer AvalonBay looks to start construction on 38-story tower next to TD Garden Developer AvalonBay Communities Inc. wants to start construction next year on a 38-story apartment tower next to the TD Garden that would include a two-story retail arcade connecting to the Garden and North Station. The development would bring 503 apartments to the city’s West End, where several developers are seeking to move forward with large housing and retail projects. AvalonBay outlined new details of its plan in a filing released Tuesday by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which must approve the project before construction can begin.
W.A.T.C.H, a Boston consumer advocacy group, issues a list of 2012’s worst toys A local consumer advocacy group that calls itself W.A.T.C.H. issued a list Tuesday of the “10 Worst Toys” for the 2012 holiday shopping season. One bit of advice from the group: Be careful about buying toys on the Internet. Why? Internet toy shoppers are often provided with less product safety information than consumers who go to brick-and-mortar stores, W.A.T.C.H. said. This year’s list included toys with small parts that can be choking hazards for small children.
Dunkin’ Donuts unveils Hot Cocoa K-Cups for single-serve home brewing systems Dunkin’ Donuts, the Canton-based coffee-and-baked-goods chain, said Tuesday that it is adding Hot Cocoa to its line-up of offerings for the Keuring single-serve home brewing system. Many coffee lovers are familiar with K-Cups --- pods of joe that enable a person to produce one cup of coffee at a time in a Keurig single-serve home brewing machine. (The Keurig brand is owned by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. of Vermont.)
Aflac’s Dan Amos will address Boston College’s Chief Executives’ Club of Boston Dan Amos, chairman and chief executive of the global insurance giant Aflac, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Boston College’s Chief Executives’ Club of Boston lunch on Nov. 29, BC said Tuesday. Abigail Johnson, president of Fidelity Financial Services, will host Amos’s visit. Amos is set to deliver a speech titled, “A CEO’s Life: Assessing and Meeting Risk in the Information Age.”
Shire PLC, Boston Children’s Hospital announce research collaboration Shire PLC, an Irish drug company that runs its Human Genetic Therapies division from Lexington, and Boston Children’s Hospital said Tuesday that they will collaborate on researching treatments for rare pediatric diseases.Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Shire will make an initial upfront payment to Boston Children’s and will have the opportunity to fund selected research programs. The amount of the upfront payment was not disclosed.
Inspirato survey: Locals prefer Thanksgiving at home to holiday road trips More than 43 million Americans are projected to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday, but a comparatively smaller percentage of them will be from Boston --- that’s largely because locals enjoy being home for the holidays more than folks from other cities do. So concludes a new survey from Inspirato, a vacation club. Among Boston respondents to the survey, 53 percent of those without travel plans cited their fondness for spending the holidays at home, while only 38 percent of respondents nationwide cited the same preference.
4,000 Mass. homeowners benefit from mortgage settlement Nearly 4,000 Massachusetts borrowers have received some kind of housing-debt relief this year as part of a national mortgage settlement involving five major lenders, with each homeowner averaging about $67,457 in financial assistance, according to federal report released Monday. Massachusetts borrowers received $266 million of the more than $21.92 billion disbursed nationally as part of the settlement over improper foreclosure proceedings, according to the preliminary report by the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight. Across the US, some 278,000 borrowers got an average of $78,739 through various forms of assistance, including mortgage loan modifications, balance writedowns, and short sales.
States charges Cape Cod man with fraud, saying he used investors’ money to buy real estate Secretary of State William F. Galvin has charged a Cape Cod man with civil fraud for allegedly running a real estate scheme in which he took more than $1.2 million from 25 Massachusetts investors. According to a complaint filed Monday, James R. Cruise Jr., 55, of Centerville, sold unregistered promissory notes to investors through his company, The Austin Group, over two decades. While promising to pay investors interest of up to 15 percent, Cruise actually used the money they gave him to buy real estate, according to the state.
Click and Clack of ‘Car Talk’ fame will live on in reruns on SiriusXM Public Radio Sirius XM Radio Inc., a national satellite radio service with 23.4 million subscribers, said it will begin regularly airing reruns of “Car Talk,” the long-running public radio show that starred Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers. The reruns will be heard on SiriusXM Public Radio, one of the company’s more than 130 channels. The plan is to air three back-to-back episodes from the show’s 25-year history on Mondays through Fridays.
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