Category Archives: business

LX Sports, a LINX offering for kids from age 3 to 8th grade that boasts lacrosse, floor hockey, flag football and other programs, has set up shop for the winter at 167 Linden St., in Wellesley’s Linden Square, between Jos. A Bank and Petco Unleashed.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has awarded a $750K acceleration loan to a Wellesley startup called Allurion Technologies that has developed a novel way to help people from overeating — it delivers an expanding medical device into the stomach via a pill. According to the award press release, the Allurion has created a “medical device [...]

Larry Corda, the longtime Wellesley barber, passed away on Dec. 26. His wake will be held Thursday, Dec. 29, 4-8pm at Eaton Funeral Home at 1351 Highland Ave in Needham, followed by a Friday 9am funeral there, then a 10am mass at St. Paul’s in Wellesley. Family and friends are invited. Corda’s Linden Street shop [...]

Linden Street Barber Shop has opened at the former Larry’s Barber Shop location at 153 Linden St. The shop, next to Jimmy’s Cafe, is open Tuesday-Friday 8-6 and Saturday 7-5. Larry’s closed over the summer. Larry Corda had opened his first shop in Wellesley in the late 1950s (UPDATE: Corda passed away in late December). [...]

Don’t shoot the messenger, but we hear Middlesex Savings Bank is moving into the vacated Whole Foods Market space at 278 Washington St., in Wellesley Hills, with hopes to open by June. Not that people have anything against this particular bank from what we know, but cries of “Not another bank!” have already been heard. [...]

Lacrosse Unlimited has announced that its new Wellesley Square store, in the old Rosie’s space, has opened for business. This is store #26 for the business, which recently opened a location in Danvers and now has 3 stores in Massachusetts. Based on their website, they’ve got lots of very colorful custom-designed lacrosse stuff. Lacrosse Unlimited, [...]

Wellesley still has plenty of open business space from one end of town to the other, but 2011 saw a handful of interesting new or revamped businesses open, while others shuffled positions. MOVING IN Whole Foods Market grabbed the biggest headlines, moving west from its Wellesley Hills location to the old Star Market/Tian Fu space [...]

J.P. Licks, the ice cream+ store in Wellesley Square, is on the Board of Selectmen agenda for Monday to seek an entertainment license. They’re already entertaining with festive holiday flavors like eggnog and candy cane, but have something more in mind: They’d like to have acoustical musicians come in now and then.