Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt Franchise Plans Hanover Street Store in Boston’s North End

26 Replies to “Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt Franchise Plans Hanover Street Store in Boston’s North End”

1. relax folks, this place won’t last two years. also, who is the landlord of this building? it MUST be a college kid or young professionial selling out to corporate america. right? right?

2. this is end result to a YUPPY NEIGHBORHOOD!!!

   1. Love pinkberry too, but this IS the beginning of the end
      for ‘old school’ Hanover St. 1. Thinking Cup > 2. Pinkberry
      > 3. Olive Garden…. Can’t wait to take my family to the
      “Olive Garden’s Fisherman’s Feast”!

      1. unless latin americans also filled the kitchens in the old school hanover days, i think those days have been long gone.

3. pinkberry is delicious! can’t wait for it to open !!!!

4. The landlord is old school and preferred traditional retail over “restaurant”. NAHAS suffered from the recession & online shoe retail threats. They’re Charles Street location thrives, so go support the Nahas family there.

   Personally, I can’t believe how many fro-yo & cupcake stores popped up across the city. Who’s buying all these $3-6 snacks?! I prefer the Pinkberry option to a full-on restaurant or bank branch.

5. I love steak…doesn’t mean I want Morton’s to open on Hanover St.

6. The competition against gelaterias will be healthy and will force “true” North End businesses to compete, something they really haven’t had to do.

7. For those who complain about students, just wait until you see the lines of SORORITY GIRLS in their Ugg boots buying Pink Berry. Also, this gentrification of Hanover Street could be a good thing for rental rates – rising rents = less students.

8. All, as a next-door neighbor at 287 Hanover, I plan on attending the hearings and saying my piece. Everyone should be able to open a business, but as a neighborhood, we need to make sure it reflects us. That means talking about signage, garbage, hours, all that.

   As far as the North End changing, it’s been changing since 1630. We just need to make sure it changes in a positive way for all of us living there.

   mike

   1. Agreed – lest everyone forget that it wasn’t always a Little Italy . . . in fact it was more like a Little Israel, a Little Ireland, and a Little England. Sure we should keep with the character of the neighborhood but that does not mean a place must be “Italian.” Positive changes can include chain retailers/restaurants. Let the consumers and the market determine what goes on Hanover (or Salem).

   2. Everyone should be able to open a business, my behind. Just as we do not live in a pure democracy, we do not live in unbridled capitalism. There are municipal ordinances from coast to coast that designate certain businesses unfit for certain areas. This is one case that shows we need such an ordinance. 1-800-FLOWERS was enough.

      1. The ordinances you refer to are generally “red light” ordinances that require strip clubs, adult novelty and video stores, sometimes tattoo and piercing parlors, things of that sort, to be located in certain zones or a minimum distance from a residential/school area.

         What would your proposed ordinance be? Only independent retailers? Only Italo-centric retailers? Try drawing a line and not sounding like a protectionist bigot.

9. i love pinkberry yum!

10. I think the guys wanting to open this place will be surprised at how many people will show up to say their piece.

    1. So you’d rather keep an empty store front in the neighborhood than a successful (albeit national chain) restaurant?

       1. I don’t think the landlord needs to just rent to the highest bidder. Is it too much to expect a landlord to take something less than market value that also is a good fit for the neighborhood?

          Is there a place on Hanover St. to get a slice of pizza after Umberto’s closes?

          1. there are tons of places to get pizza, maybe not a slice. But there are a few places to get slices on Salem, so why do we need more on Hanover? Diversify the North End!

             1. Wait – is Umberto’s closing? or are you referring to their vacation?

                1. I’m referring to after 2PM. Umberto’s is closed. Hot Tomatoes is gone. Express is gone.

                   If people want a diversified selection, I hear the South End has a ton of different places. The North End, like it or not, is a tourist attraction because of the history and because of its Italian restaurants. Not because it has a Pinkberry.

                2. Cry me a river, really? Walk over to Ernesto’s!!

11. I don’t have a problem so much with what is going to go into that space. My issue is that how do they plan on dealing with the line of customers that will end up blocking the sidewalks? And before anyone says there won’t be a line, I’ve seen it happen at other Pinkberry locations, most especially the ones that are brand new and in markets where you don’t have them.

    We already see this with Giacomo’s Restaurant and Mike’s Pastry. A booming business is great and should be encouraged. What isn’t so great is that you can’t get by the people on the sidewalk in front of the business, or get through the door of the neighboring business or apartment because of the people waiting to get into an establishment – even when you repeatedly say “excuse me”. I don’t think someone should have to walk in the street just because they can’t get by the mass of people on the sidewalk who block it.

    1. avoid hanover street. i do and life is a lot more pleasant.

       1. A good idea in theory, however, not always practical to avoid it – especially if you have to walk down Hanover to get home, or to get to one of the stores on it.

       2. Fantastic, unless you live there.

12. I avoid the sidewalks on Hanover at all costs. It’s easier, far faster and less annoying to walk in the street as the 10 double-parked cars per block provide plenty of shielding/buffer.

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