Archive for December 2020

“This commanding location has unique potential as an urban gateway,” attorney Donald Wiest wrote in a Dec. 22 letter to the city. Read More

The compromise health care legislation would require insurers to permanently reimburse for behavioral telehealth at the rates they’d pay for the same care in-person, one of a series of measures aimed at building on the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis. Read More

An iconic Massachusetts chain has sold its restaurants. Read More

Pangea.app, the startup behind a platform to connect companies with college students for freelance work, has a new headquarters: a house in Providence where co-founders Adam Alpert and John Tambunting, along with lead designer Tae Sam Lee Zamora, all live together. Read More

The EIDL advance program was chock full of problems. A new stimulus bill fixes those, and makes more money available to struggling small businesses. Read More

Boston-based XL Fleet is the latest Massachusetts company to go public through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The deal made sense for the company because of the pace of the process, which is usually less time-consuming than traditional initial public offerings, President Tod Hynes said in an interview. Read More

Noted life science investor Otello Stampacchia’s firm is joining the SPAC stampede. Read More

Toast Drop allows Kendall Square employers to order individually packaged, customized meals for their employees from local restaurants. Sponsored by Google Cambridge, the service does not charge fees to restaurants or to clients. Read More

Au Bon Pain, which Panera Bread Co. acquired in 2017, has long been located at 1 Au Bon Pain Way in Boston’s Seaport District. Read More

The Baker administration also called on hospitals to postpone all non-essential, inpatient elective invasive procedures beginning later this week. Read More