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Dartmouth Mall Adding New Clothing Store This Fall
Brick-and-mortar businesses have certainly taken a hit in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic only put fuel on the fire of our ever-growing urge to do our shopping online. The Dartmouth Mall has lost stores like Sears, Forever 21 and Justice over the past few years, and the area around the mall continues to see businesses closing down as well, with the Office Max on State Road as just the latest victim.
But the mall announced this week that it is ready to welcome a new store later this year that will offer an array of women s clothing, shoes and accessories. Windsor will be taking over a space in the center court area inside the Dartmouth Mall, with a sneak peek of their offerings coming this fall.
It used to be where Dartmouth and the SouthCoast held all their special events. See how fast the Hawthorne Country Club has fallen over the past five years.
NEW BEDFORD After being forced to leave business at sea following a federal settlement, Carlos Rafael, in yet another move, appears to be setting roots on land.
The winning bidder of the former Merchants National Bank property that sold at auction last month was Bliss Investors LLC, a company managed by Rafael s family.
The historic structure, which sits at the intersection of William and Purchase streets in downtown New Bedford, sold at auction in late January.
Justin Manning, president of JJManning Auctioneers, said in an email last month that the property sold for $770,000. There were nine registered bidders, but he said they do not disclose their names.
NEW BEDFORD Two former employees of Buyers and Sellers Exchange (BASE) are alleging owners and brothers Raymond and Richard Canastra were aware of and involved in Carlos Rafael s falsifying of fish quotas, according to two affidavits filed last week as part of an ongoing lawsuit.
In their written statements, signed in September 2020 under the penalties of perjury, former BASE employees Peter Medeiros and Nelson Couto allege Raymond Canastra and Rafael instructed them to destroy and falsify paperwork detailing the species and quantity of fish caught an important record that must be submitted weekly to the federal government.
Medeiros, who said he worked at BASE from 2006 to 2018 as general manager overseeing unloading of vessels, wrote the Canastra brothers instructed him to handle the unloading of Rafael s groundfish boats differently from all other groundfish boats starting in 2010.