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The community banks standing by hospitality customers

Independent Banker

Many hotels and other hospitality businesses haven’t fully bounced back from COVID-19 travel and safety restrictions, but community banks have been by their side through the challenges. For other borrowers, the $596 million-asset community bank allowed deferrals of principal or, in some cases, full payment deferrals. Photo: R.J.

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Small Business Spotlight: Just Add Cooking

PYMNTS

Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week? Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region.

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How Darwinian Thinking Keeps Ice Cream Shop Afloat In Off-Season

PYMNTS

Petryk, who said he was bullied ruthlessly as a kid from the third grade to high school, views his chain of Boston-based ice cream stores as safe havens that he wants to share with his community. “I I got beat up and knocked down, my books thrown away or flushed down the toilet a few times.”. That’s what J.P. Not having fun?

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

PYMNTS

The businesses that we track and profile in our Store Front Index — the home remodelers, salons, spas, small retailers, delis, coffee shops and restaurants that contribute to the health and vitality of the local communities — are not only declining, they’re not even getting off the starting blocks.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

While they drum up interest in the company, known as “book building,” underwriters also work to price the IPO, or determine how the stock should be priced when it first hits the market. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

CB Insights

These companies are advancing a variety of construction methods to build ambitious development projects that reimagine everything from the wood used in homes to the ways we think about private vs. communal space. worth of bookings, and as of April 2018, it employs over 1,400 people. Table of contents. Cities’ housing shortage.

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Mall Kiosks Find New Life As ‘Studio Shops’

PYMNTS

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. We built Fourpost to completely re-architect the process by building a community and breathing fresh air into what has been a stale industry between landlords and brands for hundreds of years.”

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