According to a recent report by a dating website, Logan International Airport is a hotbed for romance, and now it may be evolving into a hotbed for New England cuisine as well. Durgin-Park, an iconic Hub restaurant known for scrod, chowder, and the occasional waitress with a nuts-to-you attitude, is now serving up regional delicacies at a 3,405-square-foot restaurant at Logan’s Terminal E, said AirMall USA, a company that operates concessions at Logan and several other airports. ‘‘At AirMall, we think it’s vital to add restaurants and shops to our concessions programs that reflect the area and give travelers a sense of the region’s history, flavor, and flair,’’ Michael Caro, vice president of AirMall Boston, said. The Massachusetts unemployment rate dropped to 6.5 percent in February, down from 6.7 percent in January, as the local economy created 500 jobs last month, the state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday. Pursway Ltd., a marketing analytics firm with offices in Waltham and Israel, said Thursday that Dave Ellenberger has been appointed chief executive; the appointment comes as the company moves into its next phase of growth. Cambridge biotechnology company bluebird bio announced Thursday the formation of a global collaboration with Celgene Corp. to discover, develop, and commercialize gene therapies for oncology treatments. Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc. stock closed unchanged at $7 a share on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq exchange Wednesday after the Watertown biotechnology start-up raised $74.9 million in an initial public offering. Hemera Biosciences, a Boston start-up company that’s working on a treatment for age-related blindness, has raised $3.8 million in investment funding to further study its gene remedy for the affliction. Age-related macular degeneration typically affects people over age 55 and is the leading cause of blindness in the United States and Europe, the company said. Approximately 8 million people in this country have a form of the disease, Hemera said. The company’s founders are doctors and faculty members at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. New Hampshire’s aerospace and defense industry companies are working together to find opportunities overseas. The New Hampshire Aerospace and Defense Export Consortium held its first formal meeting on Wednesday, just as many of its members are starting to feel the effects of the across-the-board federal spending cuts that began March 1. New Hampshire has about 300 aerospace and defense-related companies, and the industry is growing, but it is also deeply affected by what happens in Washington, said Christopher Way, interim director of the state Division of Economic Development. ‘‘We’re seeing the hiring that’s starting to flatten. We’re seeing expansions that aren’t occurring and we’re also seeing contracts that aren’t being offered,’’ he said. | | |
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