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  • Framingham Brewery Grand Opening Celebration

    Eric, Sam, Jack and Abby in the Tasting Room
    The tasting room at Jack's Abby Brewing, LLC, Framingham, MA

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – For the past few months people around Framingham have been hearing a lot about Jack’s Abby Brewing.

    Brothers Jack Hendler, Eric Hendler and Sam Hendler — along with Jack’s wife “Abby” have been making appearances throughout Framingham and area towns touting each new beer as they ramp up production.

    Today, Framingham Selectman Dennis Giombetti, along with Bonnie Biocchi, (President, MetroWest Chamber of Commerce), Donna Kelleher, (Chair, Chamber Board of Directors), Bill McGinley (Member, Chamber Board of Directors), and a host of friends, family, media and beer lovers met in the tasting room of the brewery for (more…)

    Framingham Brewery Grand Opening Celebration

  • Framingham Residential Real Estate Sales (July 2011)

    262 Edmands Road, Framingham, MA, (August 2011)
    This home at 262 Edmands Road, topped the list of Framingham, MA residential real estate sales for July 2011, selling for $670,225

    FRAMINGHAM, MA– There were a total of 57 residential real estate sales in Framingham during the month of July 2011.

    Of the properties sold, forty three single family homes were sold at an average sale price of just under $319k, eight condominiums sold at an average price of $112k, five multi-family properties sold at an average of $231k, and one piece of land was sold for $160k.

    Sold properties had been on the market for an average of just under three months, except for the land sale — that property, a 4/10ths of an acre parcel located at 10 Fenwick Street was only on the market for four days, had an asking price of $159,900 and sold for $160,000.

    Topping out the single family residence market, a 10-room, 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath colonial at 262 Edmands Road sold for (more…)

    Framingham Residential Real Estate Sales (July 2011)

  • Sealtest Factory Selling Off Equipment

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Most people who have lived in Framingham for more than 30 or 40 years refer to the ice cream production facility on Old Connecticut Path, (across from the top of Speen Street), simply as “Sealtest” — even though it hasn’t produced Sealtest ice-cream for many years.

    In-fact, no ice-cream at all has been made at the Framingham plant since April 31, 2011. That’s when Unilever, the multi-national consumer product manufacturing conglomerate which owns the Sealtest, Breyer’s and Good Humor ice-cream brands finally shut down the factory.

    It wasn’t a sudden closing, for a couple years Unilever had been warning the last 200 or so employees they would be shifting production to other facilities where utilities, taxes and wages would cost the company less.

    After hearing the final days for the plant were numbered, in March (2011), Michael Montville who grew up in Bellingham, (and now lives in Danielson CT), made (more…)

    Sealtest Factory Selling Off Equipment

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