Category: Business

For a long while, it looked as though plans to renovate the former Salvation Army building atop Coles Hill didn’t stand a prayer. Talk of a makeover began soon after the church decamped for Long Pond Road almost a decade ago. A local couple, Edward and Ayli Gates, bought the distinctive – but neglected – […]

Plymouth’s oldest craft brewery is closing its doors at the end of the year, the latest casualty in a nationwide decline in the popularity of independent breweries. Mayflower Brewing Company, which was purchased last year by the owner of Orleans-based Hog Island Beer Company, will close its brewery and tasting room on Resnik Road on […]

Why didn’t somebody do this sooner? That was my reaction last year when I heard about a boutique hotel planned for the heart of downtown. It’s no surprise the man behind it is Rick Vayo, a developer who has set about to reimagine Plymouth’s once drab business district. The town has two mid-range full-service hotels […]

In case you haven’t been paying attention, take notice: You’re being watched. Privacy is at a premium in Plymouth and most of the world. Cameras are everywhere, from the front doors of homes to stores to streets to parking lots and more. They’re mounted on posts, peering down from the sky, and in the hands […]

Just after noon on August 10, The Lobster Pound, a fixture at Manomet point since 1963, reopened its doors for the first time since 2023. Owned and operated by the Collins family for 60 years, a family illness forced the 2023 closure. Two young local entrepreneurs, Tim Mahoney, 34, and Ryan Belval, 27, are the […]

A lot has changed since Tom O’Reilly threw his first lobster pot in the ocean more than four decades ago. Back then he was using wooden traps which had to be laden with rocks so they would sink to the sea floor. Once the wood became waterlogged the rocks were no longer needed, but they […]

After months of delays for permitting and planning, the developer of the former site of Bert’s restaurant was cleared by town officials last week to start building an outdoor festival venue on the once iconic waterfront site. Scott Hokanson, owner of the health insurance firm Brabo Benefits, leased the abandoned property last year and has […]

To hear Jim Doyle describe it, experiencing the subtlety of Nepali curry for the first time was revelatory. That was five years ago. Today, the restaurant that serves the dish has served him something more sustaining: A rebirth of sorts. Doyle, 58, manages The Himalaya, which recently opened on Court Street. He’s running it for […]

The battle between Plymouth and Kingston to potentially land a Costco is now in court, litigation over a proposed gas station likely to delay a resolution even longer. The Town of Kingston is asking the Massachusetts Land Court to overturn a Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals decision to allow a gas station at the T.L. […]

Jimmy and Brendan Gillis have been run through the mill. Or, more accurately, run out of the mill building. Gillis Family Tavern, their four-year-old restaurant in the Jenney Grist Mill complex along Town Brook, was doing well until 2024. That’s when an ambitious $20.9 million project to remake the Jenney Pond area began. The result […]