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	<title>Newton Villages - A city-wide coalition to improve our village centers &#187; Chestnut Hill</title>
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		<title>Village Business Profile: The Urban Grape</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/12/village-business-profile-the-urban-grape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Boiros</dc:creator>
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The Urban Grape
7 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill (near Star Market)
Business hours: Monday through Wednesday, 9:30AM to 9:30PM; Thursday through Saturday 9:30AM to 11:00PM; Sundays from 12:00PM to 6:00PM)




Husband-and-wife team TJ and Hadley Douglas of Boston opened The Urban Grape in 2010 offering a vast selection of wine, spirits, beer and sake with a philosophy of unparalleled customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avid geocacher creates 13 more reasons to explore Newton&#8217;s villages</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/avid-geocacher-creates-reasons-to-explore-newtons-villages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Moreira, who teaches technology courses at Johnson &#38; Wales University in Providence, has posted an article about a series of items he&#8217;s hidden around Newton as part of a &#8220;geocaching&#8221; project, a scavenger hunt that require the use of GPS technology.
He&#8217;s hidden caches in 13 different village locations &#8212; even in Thompsonville. (Given today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Village association to discuss building proposed at Chestnut Hill Shopping Center</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/chestnut-hill-association-to-discuss-building-demolition-at-the-chestnut-hill-shopping-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/chestnut-hill-association-to-discuss-building-demolition-at-the-chestnut-hill-shopping-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All villages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 7, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] At the monthly meeting of the Chestnut Hill Association, WS Development Associates LLC will present its proposal for the demolition and reconstruction of part of the building at 33 Boylston Street.  The proposed new building will include three stories, with new ground floor retail uses, potential second floor office or retail space, and the development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life after Macy&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/03/life-after-macys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macy&#39;s soon-to-be-vacant building in Chestnut Hill. (Source: City of Newton)
Within a week, Macy&#8217;s will vacate its Chestnut Hill location. This vacancy raises questions about (1) what will become of the  building and (2) how a new use of that commercial space may affect the  area.
Admittedly, while Chestnut Hill and Thompsonville are listed among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Newton&#8217;s Lumiere and others join Restaurant Week(s) Boston, March 6-18</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/03/west-newtons-lumiere-and-others-join-restaurant-week-boston/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/03/west-newtons-lumiere-and-others-join-restaurant-week-boston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restaurant Week Boston starts today, and Chef Michael Leviton&#8217;s restaurant Lumiere in West Newton is offering diners special special menus March 6-11 and March 13-18 (subject to change).
Lumiere is the only village center restaurant participating. Other Newton restaurants offering Restaurant Week specials include the Riverbend Bar and Grill in Auburndale; Aquitaine, The Capital Grille, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBJ: Chestnut Hill Square development may hinge on state funding</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/01/bbj-chestnut-hill-square-development-may-hinge-on-state-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/01/bbj-chestnut-hill-square-development-may-hinge-on-state-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed development of the former Omni Foods site on Route 9 awaits the approval of approximately $15 million in state funding, according to an article in Friday&#8217;s Boston Business Journal.
Newton-based New England Development hopes to obtain money from the state’s Infrastructure Investment Incentive Program, known as I-Cubed, to help finance public infrastructure improvements, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed-use development to bring retail space and 5 residences to Nonantum</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/12/mixed-use-development-proposed-in-nonantum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/12/mixed-use-development-proposed-in-nonantum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design of the mixed-use building by Newton-based Architects2, http://architects2boston.com/.
The big news this week has been the redevelopment of the vacant Omni Foods site on Route 9 in Chestnut Hill. That project, by Newton-based New England Development, has met with both begrudging approval and outright opposition, which you may have already read about in the Newton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chestnut Hill housing development garners national attention with ULI award</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/12/chestnut-hill-housing-development-garners-national-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/12/chestnut-hill-housing-development-garners-national-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A housing development in the northern edge of Chestnut Hill has won a national award from the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
ULI picked the Fairways and Carriage House at 33 Commonwealth to receive a Jack Kemp Workforce Housing 2010 Models of Excellence award. Only four developments nationwide received the award from 29 submissions. The other winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaping a &#8216;human-scale&#8217; environment</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/shaping-a-healthy-human-scale-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/shaping-a-healthy-human-scale-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needham Street*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post yesterday, &#8220;livable communities&#8221; blogger Steve Miller suggested a healthy environment requires three things:

Smart Growth,
Active Transportation, and
Human-Scale Architecture.

This year, we&#8217;ve written about smart growth, some definitions of it, and how its principles might apply in the context of Newton. At the same time, a Mixed Use Task Force, created by Newton Mayor Setti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Village center venues host holiday concerts</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/village-center-venues-host-holiday-concerts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/village-center-venues-host-holiday-concerts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this age of 3-D films and TiVo, it may be easy to overlook the good old-fashioned performance spaces in our village centers. But, perhaps this holiday season, we can take time to enjoy them.
Newton Villages welcomes efforts of the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA) to create collaborations between the city&#8217;s arts organizations and our local [...]]]></description>
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