photo: Shadows, ladders and lines. Workers hand scrape and sanding Restoration Works building facade, 16 Rogers St., Glouc., MA., on Nov. 20, 2023
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Tag: Storefronts
A Marijuana dispensary got the green light by train station #GloucesterMA
New construction downtown.
I don’t know if this is the original applicant. Construction underway at Whistlestop Way near Doyon’s, between Dollar General and Auto Parts, where Google maps is labeled, ‘Family Dollar’. The new sign is ‘Ocean Breeze Craft Cannabis’
Answers
- The original applicant presented to the council on Nov. 9, 2021
- Mass. Cannabis Control Commission (CCC)
- Boston Globe spotlight published a great series on the pot industry in Massachusetts (may 2019). Great read.
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Chase branch coming to Walgreens Plaza where Papa Gino’s shuttered #GloucesterMA
Construction news.
Chase is opening hundreds of branches in local communities including in Gloucester in one of the anchor buildings comprising Walgreens Plaza downtown. The firm renovating the structure for a flagship bank, in a space originally built out for a now shuttered Papa Gino’s restaurant, has built many for Chase already. The branch is located next to Dunkin’ Donuts and across from the Santander branch that opened in the yogurt store. It’s expected to open by January 2024.
Responses to questions I’ve received about more construction:
The crane above and behind Walgreens is for renovation happening at police headquarters.
Further afield: not sure, but assuming the dig out by Thatcher Road condos is landscaping and it looks like a path (out back?). The sidewalk/path below grade that flooded and iced over was removed and a new sign added.
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Gold lobster wreath and new @1623studios sign #GloucesterMA
1623 Storefront: Dec. 5 | Dec 12
1623 Studios 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester, Mass. (historic Brown’s building)
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Merry Storefronts Winter windows: holiday Christmas displays Main Street #GloucesterMA 2020
Selection of Gloucester’s downtown storefronts in morning light and seasonal swag December 2020.
Did you discover a great find on Ladies Night (all day) last week?
Establishments include some of the bakeries, boutiques, galleries, restaurants, salons, service, & new shops Main Street, Center and Pleasant:
Banana’s 78 Main St (978)283-8806 (Lady Tannenbaum in the window)
The Brass Monkey 85 Main St (978) 879-4761
Caffe Sicilia 40 Main St (978)283-7345
Cape Ann Olive Oil 57 Main St (978)281-1061
Cape Ann Savings Bank 109 Main St
Charles Fine Art 196 Main St (978) 559-7762
Dogtown Books 132 Main St (978) 281-5599
Emerson’s Barber Shop 6 Center St. (978) 290-3477
Engel & Volkers 120 Main Street
Fireflies Boutique 100 Main St (978)283-1379
Franklin 118 Main St (978)283-7888
Jalapeno’s 86 Main St (978) 283-8228
Jane Deering Gallery 19 Pleasant St
Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative Gallery 121 Main St (978) 283-3996
Main Street Arts & Antiques 124 Main St (978) 281-1531
Mark Adrian Shoe 103 Main St (978) 283-4343
Nelson’s 248 Main St (978) 283-5675
Oliver’s Harbor Restaurant and Bar 64 Main St (978) 559-7638
Pop Gallery 67 Main St (617)458-9345
Salon One 267 Main St (978) 479-9185
Sample This 116 Main St (978) 865-3873
Shop Loro Boutique (Center Street)
Super Cute Boutique 242 main St (978) 360-2499
TAJ/breakwater Roasters/Backyard Growers 3 Duncan St
Toodeloos! Toy store 142 Main St (978)281-2011
Matthew Swift Gallery 189 Main St (978) 491-7785
Blue River Diamonds 189 Main St
Village Silversmith 138 Main St (978) 283-8811
Virgilio’s Italian Bakery (978) 283-5295
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Reno in progress- 382 Main Street getting some love #GloucesterMA
382 Main Street (formerly Gloucester Nails; Domino’s still). Do you remember what was here before its last reno?
2016
Nov 2020
but wowza when it’s a single story! Curious to see the new streetscape
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Captain Vito’s Fresh Seafood: New Business on Washington Street downtown #GloucesterMA
A new business has opened downtown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Captain Vito’s Fresh Seafood opened on 53 Washington Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts, utterly transforming the space formerly held by wonderful Giovanni’s barbershop (and tailor shop at the back). Sclafani’s Italian bakery is located next door.
Seafood to go website here: https://www.captainvitosfreshseafood.com/
prepared meals and daily specials
Order to go menu (978) 491-0222
menu
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Leonardo’s adds some outdoor seats
Restaurants and businesses adapting to the phased re-openings and social distance restrictions
Leonardo’s on Main Street, Gloucester, Mass. (978) 281- 7882
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Signs of the times: Covid 19 reopening phase Main Street #GloucesterMA
Main Street storefront signs upon the Covid-19 phased reopening stage are sweet, humorous, hopeful and helpful.
update! There are more on the way! Lettering for Love project brought to Gloucester by Brittany Barry. She brightened all shown here albeit Passports. See also Brit Barry Design website
The Franklin Cafe 118 Main Street
The Comeback is always stronger than the setback and curbside pickup
Passports 110 Main Street
Open for Take out ( Full Menu ) Masks Required
Salon Amara 133 Main Street
**Roots** grow strong in a storm and After Every Storm Comes a Rainbow
Sample This 116 Main Street
Retail is my favorite kind of therapy
Be fun if this takes over the street!
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Messages from Main Street
Signs of the times-
Main Street/downtown: Passports, Mark Adrian Shoes, ToodeLoos!, Design of Mine
Further out: Cape Ann Motor Inn
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New shop – CF Flooring 139A Main Street #GloucesterMA
CF Flooring Gallery, 139A Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
phone (617) 820-4933 
website http://www.cavalryflooring.com here
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Trilogic Systems moving to 37 Main Street | 20, 147 (Citizen’s Bank) & 154 Main Street (Santander) available to buy or lease and Fisherman’s Outfitter new space now open #GloucesterMA
Trilogic Systems* is moving from 126 Main Street (next to Main Street Art & Antiques) to the ground floor space at 37 Main Street on the west end, next to Jon Sarkin Fish City Studios into the space last occupied by Rose & Dove Gift Shop.
*”Embedded computing products and services for the military, industrial control and communications markets”
Fisherman’s Outfitter new space OPEN
18 Washington Street
Building for sale and/or ground floor retail spaces available on Main Street include:
- 20 Main Street free standing shop available to rent ($3,995/month)
- 147 Main Street retail building is for sale 5,378 SF $1,590,000 at a 5% Cap Rate with a tenant locked in. Citizen’s Bank renewed its lease.
- 154 Main Street 12,000 ft’ commercial office space available to lease soon. Santander is there now. The space will be available June 2020.
- 177 Main Street (CVS) is not listed yet – readers wondered its status with the announcement of a new branch coming to Gloucester Crossing
- on the east end Main Street- 242 and across the street 263 and 271
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Shop with a view
We snapped a wiper scraping snow off our car windshield. I headed downtown to Consumer Auto Parts, Whistle Stop Way, Gloucester, Mass. for replacements. They were happy to re-attach them if I ran into trouble which was nice to hear. I especially enjoyed the view of St. Ann’s framed through the window at nearly the approximate orientation of vistas depicted in Gloucester works by artist, Edward Hopper.
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Just a shave away | The Black Bear Barber Shop opts for a different Main Street location
East End Main Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts, street-level retail news
Before building out a new space at 261 Main Street, next door to Alexandra’s Bread, The Black Bear Barber Shop will set up instead across the street at 260 Main Street. The business will be the first commercial tenant in the new 260 Main Street multi use building. (Cape Ann Animal Aid was the last tenant in the razed building.) There was a chance to customize plumbing for a ground floor retail space and it might mean more customer parking.
Settling into 260 Main Street rather than 261 means that 261 Main Street (Eastern Point Lit House was last there and seasonally PRESENT) is available to rent.
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Willow Rest – fall flair and fare
Fall daisies and fresh daily “meals made with love” Willow Rest , Gloucester, MA
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137 Main Street Gloucester rented again plus other retail rental opportunities
Want to open a street level store on Main Street in Gloucester or buy a building? There are several available ground floor listings. What do you imagine filling these spaces?
A new Nail Salon is opening at 137 Main Street (formerly Koo De Kir and Toodeloos– before Toodeloos! moved across the street) so that space is out.
These open spaces:
242 Main Street – (former A Paine in Al’s Glass space after he moved from Maplewood)
232 Main Street – Animal Krackers space will be available one day as building is for sale
6 Elm Street (former Common Crow space) at corner of Main
180 A Main Street A (former Magic Scarf space) William C. Rochford building (Action Inc) Magicscarf 19 Pond Road was having a sale.
123 Main Street – (Kids Unlimited space closing)
8 Pleasant Street at corner of Main (former J Barrett & Co realtor space relocated to Main Street)
206 Main Street – (not available! former Cameron’s building was sold and will be redeveloped)
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Store Fronts – Seasonal, Weekly and Even Pure Fantasy
So many storefront windows and so many messages! Here are a few designed for the season, a celebration and pure fantasy.
Good Morning Gloucester 