You see that sucker going, and steam's going all over the place, there's planes thrown in the air.' ' I said, 'You don't use steam anymore for catapult?' 'No sir.' I said, 'Ah, how is it working?' 'Sir, not good. So I said, 'What is this?' 'Sir, this is our digital catapult system.' He said, 'Well, we're going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern. "You know the catapult is quite important. In the interview, Trump described his tour of the ship and dismay upon learning about the launching system: No word on how Herrman feels about the bankruptcy of former Bed Bath affiliate Christmas Tree Shops, or the real estate potential of that quirky store with the windmill on Cape Cod next to the Sagamore Bridge that will soon be vacant.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. “So we are taking advantage of that situation, to your point,” he added. TJX is reordering inventories at certain HomeGoods stores near Bed Bath locations that are closing, Herrman said. “But we do strongly believe that creates market share opportunities and market grab for us.” “We never like to name the other retailers when it’s happening,” Herrman said. Who wants to be seen as publicly gloating at a rival’s demise? Herrman offered a hopeful response for TJX, even though he seemed reluctant to respond at first. But is anyone crying at Framingham rival TJX Companies?Īnalyst Chuck Grom, from Gordon Haskett Research Advisors, asked TJX chief executive Ernie Herrman on an earnings call last week about what kind of benefit TJX’s HomeGoods division might see from Bed Bath’s liquidation. “They’re going to use this as an incubator to come up with some provocative ideas to address climate and equity.”īed Bath & Beyond’s demise could be TJX’s gainīed Bath & Beyond fans are upset about the chain’s closure. “We just thought by combining forces and resources, we can make a bigger impact,” CBT principal David Nagahiro said.
The two biggest funders by far, at $250,000 apiece, were architectural firms CBT and Elkus Manfredi. The society, which will provide funding and networking to help the project teams, raised more than $650,000 for this initiative. Now, all five groups will spend the next six to 18 months working on academic projects that flesh out the ideas they submitted to the society, ranging from using more recycled materials in affordable housing construction to rethinking how public benefits are negotiated via Boston’s development approval process. The trade association recently held a contest to seek the best ideas for ways of using the built environment to confront equity issues or climate change, and narrowed the list of winners down from 30 applicants to five finalists. “If business is going to be successful,” Fish said, “we absolutely need City Hall and the State House behind it.”Ĭan architecture save the world? The Boston Society for Architecture might soon find out. Suffolk Construction owner John Fish, there to bring Slack chief executive Lidiane Jones and O’Hanley’s chief of staff Yvonne Garcia to the stage, reminded Wu and Healey to focus on competitiveness. Same for Governor Maura Healey, who concluded with this applause-winning phrase: “As I look around this room, my money is on Massachusetts.”
Mayor Michelle Wu told the crowd that she recognizes the challenges, and will do what it takes to “win” on all fronts. Chamber chairman Ron O’Hanley, the chief executive of State Street Corp., rattled them off from the stage: high housing prices, problematic public transit, surging perceptions of “Taxachusetts.” “People are voting with their feet,” O’Hanley added, noting that Massachusetts was one of only four states where the population declined from 2020 to 2022. But this year, there was something else in the air: concerns about the state’s economic competitiveness.
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