Year: 2012

From Nancy Gaines, The GDT.

“Preliminary plans for the Beauport Gloucester hotel at the former Birdseye site on Pavilion Beach call for a four-story structure, containing 102 mid-priced rooms, a restaurant, meeting center and parking under the building.

With the developers, Beauport Gloucester LLC, already having given “perpetual use” of the beach to the community, they now promise to create a public walkway from Commercial Street to the beach.

Another special local feature, said the hotel project’s managing director, Sheree DeLorenzo, will be retaining or rebuilding the Birdseye white tower, “because it’s a local landmark,” she said.

The plans will be brought before City Council Monday in the first in a series of public meetings by the city Planning Board and the council’s Planning and Development Subcommittee.

The project, financed by Jim Davis — the owner and founder of New Balance shoes, who has a home in Bay View — could cost $75 million, industry experts say.

The plan entails amending — but not dropping — the marine industrial zoning of Fort Square to accommodate a hotel that would be subject to stiff special permitting. The proposed rezoning — with a hotel overlay district — is the subject of Monday’s hearing, which is set for 7 p.m. in City Hall’s Kyrouz Auditorium.

“We listened to the community,” said DeLorenzo, who manages Cruiseport and the Seaport Grille and who will make a presentation to the council Monday.

“We heard that people wanted friends, family, visitors or business colleagues to be able to stay in the city, in a type of accommodation they were accustomed to,” she said. “We will make Birdseye a beautiful property.”

DeLorenzo said the project may well bring up to 100 new jobs to the city, with positions in all ranges of income. A trickle-down effect, she said, would also expand business for providers of local goods like fish, cakes, candies, beer and spirits, florists.”

For much more on this story, look to tomorrow’s print and online editions of the Gloucester Daily Times and gloucestertimes.com.

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Nancy Gaines is a regular Times correspondent and an editor of Boston and national publications.

Oh, you get to go out and take Photos.

Hey Joe,

                I got a feeling that wicked Tuna is goanna be a big hit,Have you checked it out yet.I think like the Deadliest Catch or anything to do with commercial fishing more people want to see more.I hope it will help promote Gloucester as the Bluefin Capital of the world and bring more people to town to charter fish.

I hope you give it some space on your blog.

Thanks,

Mike Parisi

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/national-geographic-channel/extras/wicked-tuna/ngc-wicked-tuna/

Pathways for Children will be hosting Parent & Child Drop-In Playgroups on Monday mornings from 10:00- 11:30 am, at their Cape Ann Families playspace located at 28 Emerson Ave.( across the street from Pathways) in Gloucester. On Monday March 12th Martha Morgan will be our featured guest reader. Martha is an early educator and children’s librarian. “Please join us for stories, songs, fingerplays and FUN”. Play group is open to all parents and children ages birth- five. For further information please contact Amy Larsen at 978 281-2400 x 120 or alarsen@pw4c.org.

THE SUMMER PIE PLAYHOUSE

SIX (6) – One Week Morning Workshops for Players entering grades 1-7*

Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:15 pm and on Friday until 2:00 pm

A SHOW EVERY FRIDAY AT 1:00 for one and ALL

A different workshop each week – Please register for one or more weeks

Fee:  $100 per week – per Player

The Summer Pie Playhouse meets and performs
at The Unitarian-Universalist Society of Rockport at 4 Cleaves Street

Workshop Weeks:  June 25-29, July 9-13, July 16-20, July 23-27, July 30-August 3, and August 6-10, (no workshop July 4 week)

Registration is on a first come basis with a maximum of 24 Players

Registration is due three weeks in advance of each participating week

A minimum of 10 Players must be met to run a week

To register or inquire contact Dona Lambert @ donalambert1@gmail.com 

FYI  & General Schedule:  

• 8:50 am – 9:00 am, Players arrive.
• 9:00 am – 9:20 am, Theater Games and Figments in Big Group
• 9:20 am – 10:00 am, Play Construction in small groups of 4-5 Players with a Coach and a Cheerleader.  We construct our play in pieces and put it together nice and easy as Pie!
• 10:00-10:30, Big Group Interpretive Dance and Choreography
• 10:30-11:00, Big Group Snack Theater, The Coaches and Cheerleaders perform for the Players
• 11:00-11:45, Small Group Play Construction
• 11:45-12:15, GLEE and Design
• 12:15, M-TH, Players are picked-up.  On Friday the Players stay through for the Show and the audience comes a little before 1:00 for the performance.

Bring a substantial snack and drink M-TH, on Friday bring a full lunch and drink.

*Players entering Grade 7 will work in the small groups as peer leaders.  They will also have some time, in a group together, to plan a special act for the Show.

Each small group will have a Coach, (Jr/Sr. in HS, or College Arts Student), and a Cheerleader, (a volunteer Arts Student entering grades 8-10), and possibly a 7th. Grade Peer Leader)

Figment Coaches will take Players for special work as it is imagined and invented in creating a song, dance, scene, or poem.  So within the small groups, there are even further possibilities, as the Spirit Leads for creating.

 Head Coach:  Dona Lambert

Cheerleaders:  Volunteers entering grades 8-10 who have worked with Dona.  Apply to Dona for the week or weeks of your choice.

Coaches:  Paid Staff.  Must be a Jr. or Sr. in HS or a College Student and must have worked with Dona.  

Apply to Dona for the week or weeks of your choice.