Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Location at MarketStreet Lynnfield to feature a bocce court, 18 bowling lanes, and more. Company is also opening locations in Orlando, Chicago and Burlington.
Lynnfield Selectmen have approved an all-alcohol license for Kings, the bowling alley/restaurant company that is expanding to MarketStreet Lynnfield and several other locations in the coming months. The MarketStreet Lynnfield development is located off Route 128 close to the Lynnfield/Wakefield town line. Representatives of the company provided selectmen with a look at the design plan of the Lynnfield location, which will be a 21,000 square foot facility with 18 bowling lanes, a bocce court, some 60 HD television sets, billiards, private bowling space for rent, plus a 192-seat full-service restaurant with another 26 patio seats. Frank Stryjewski, the chief operating officer of Kings, estimated that the new business will cost as much as $6 …
Friday, March 8, 2013
National Development indicates that instead of seeking voter approval for its specialty cinema at Lynnfield's spring town meeting, it will now wait until the fall one.
A proposed warrant article for this spring’s town meeting seeking approval for a specialty cinema at MarketStreet Lynnfield has been moved back to the fall town meeting. The project, currently under construction on Route 128 near the Lynnfield/Wakefield line, is expected to open its Phase 1 late in the summer. In a letter announcing the change this week, Ted Tye, managing partner of National Development, wrote that “based on the short time period until town meeting and the need to continue to work on important details of our proposal, we have decided to delay filing a zoning amendment for the addition of a town center cinema at MarketStreet.” If approved by town voters, the proposed 8-screen cinema would open in late 2014 or early 2015 …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tenants expected to be opening up at MarketStreet starting in late August into the fall. Two well-known names announced Monday night.
The MarketStreet at Lynnfield development will include a Williams Sonoma and a Pottery Barn, reported National Development Managing Partner Ted Tye at Monday night's Lynnfield selectmen's meeting. Tye was at the meeting to provide an update on the project, noting that 16 buildings are now under construction - four residential with the others as retail. Whole Foods is expected to open in late August, with others following from Labor Day into November, he added. Some tenants will also reportedly start moving into the 180 Arbor Point luxury points at the development in September, with some 10,000 square feet of office space, including the future Al Merritt Media and Cultural Center, also set to be ready in the fall. Tye also provided a …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
This week, Lynnfield Patch checked in with National Development and with the MBTA to see if bus service is part of the plan for MarketStreet Lynnfield.
Earlier this week during a conversation about the proposed specialty cinema at MarketStreet Lynnfield, another topic that came up was the possibility that MBTA bus service could be extended to the development after it opens. Lynnfield residents Wallace McKenzie and Joe DeMaina maintain that eventually, an MBTA bus will make its way up to the town's largest-ever commercial development - likely by extending an existing line serving Lynn and/or Saugus. If this scenario did happen, they said the town would end up paying a considerable amount each year in to the MBTA, which currently does not provide service in Lynnfield. Still, National Development and the MBTA both said this week that a bus stop is not part of the plan at MarketStreet …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Possible town meeting warrant will ask voters to approve what is described as a specialty cinema at MarketStreet Lynnfield. The debate looks like it won't be an easy one.
As reported last week on this website, National Development expects to ask voters at Lynnfield town meeting to approve what is described as a speciality cinema for Phase 2 of the MarketStreet Lynnfield project. The project is located near the Sheraton Colonial and the Wakefield/Lynnfield line just off 128. Phase 2 would not open until late 2014 or early 2015, Tye told Patch.com earlier this month. For a look at the businesses that will open with Phase 1 of MarketStreet Lynnfield in late summer, click here. While the proposed eight-screen cinema itself is new, discussions of a movie theater at MarketStreet Lynnfield have been going on since the earliest days of the project in 2007 when an initial proposal envisioned 16 screens before being …
Monday, February 11, 2013
National Development plans to ask voters at this spring's town meeting to approve a smaller-sized, more upscale cinema at MarketStreet Lynnfield.
Looking ahead to Phase 2 of the MarketStreet Lynnfield project, National Development plans to seek clearance to build what is described as a specialty cinema. The project is located yards from the Sheraton Colonial property and the Wakefield line. During a site visit last week to the MarketStreet project site off Walnut Street in Lynnfield, Ted Tye of National Development told this website that the original zoning for the project back in 2007 did not include a movie theater as an allowed use. He added that back in 2009, that town's voters were asked to approve a regular cinema, and while a majority vote was reached in favor of the idea, the required two-thirds majority was not. The proposed warrant article for the 2013 Lynnfield spring …
Have you wondered what it looks like at the project site off 128? Here's a look at where progress stood just several days ago.
Since last year, we've seen various buildings taking shape at MarketStreet Lynnfield - the large commercial/residential development taking shape just off Route 128, near the Wakefield line and the Sheraton Colonial. In a couple of cases, we've even been able to run some photos of the site from more than 1,200 feet in the air. Last week though, I was able to visit the construction site and get a first-hand look around for this photo gallery, while also getting some new updates about the businesses we can expect to see later this year as well as this update about a specialty cinema that could end up being part of phase 2 in late 2014 or 2015. From the Walnut Street entrance just off Route 128, the project winds back toward the Boston Sports …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This week, Ted Tye of National Development provided a full rundown of the familiar and local brand names we can expect when MarketStreet opens around late August.
In recent months, various high-profile companies have announced that they will be opening locations later this year at MarketStreet Lynnfield. The development is near Pleasure Island Road in Wakefield and the Sheraton Colonial. Local residents have known that Whole Foods, Davio's, Legal C Bar, The Yard House, King's and J.P. Licks Ice Cream will be among the familiar brands present when Lynnfield's largest-ever commercial and residential development opens later this year. In a visit to the MarketStreet Lynnfield construction site this week, Ted Tye, managing partner of National Development, provided a rundown of some more things we can expect in the coming months - including a much more in-depth list of the commercial tenants for Phase 1 …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Lynnfield Police Department getting ready to make first budget requests for the coming MarketStreet era. Chief David Breen talked this week about what's coming up.
When the MarketStreet Lynnfield development is up and running later this year, Lynnfield Police hope to have an outreach center, an officer who's trained with a bicycle, and two new officers as part of their strategy to keep up with demand for service calls. The MarketStreet Lynnfield development is less than a mile away from the Sheraton Colonial in Wakefield and other nearby properties in town. In a phone conversation this week with Patch.com, Lynnfield Police Chief David Breen talked about some of his department's priorities as the largest development in the town's history prepares to get up and running. He also talked about some of the things he has learned by studying comparable developments, such as Legacy Place in Dedham. The …
Wallace McKenzie
7:19 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
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