Attention all little astronauts, ballerinas, and construction workers — there will be trick-or-treating this year on Centre Street.
Posts tagged as “Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association”
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In November, Jamaica Plain News reported that smart receptacles for cigarette butts would soon be coming to Centre Street. These Sidewalk Buttlers are now up. Each box bears the name of a local business that helped sponsor the project. The boxes are inconspicuous, so you might not have noticed them yet.
![Gerry Ford, founder of Caffè Nero, makes a point during a meeting with the JP Business & Professional Assoc. on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014.](http://jpnews2018.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gerry-Ford-1-600x450.jpg)
Give Caffè Nero executives credit — they waded into a basement meeting room crammed with local business owners already on record as not wanting the international coffee house chain in Jamaica Plain.
![Rendering of interior for Caffè Nero's 733 Centre St. location showing window onto Blanchards.](http://jpnews2018.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/scan0001-e1410270895995-600x450.jpg)
Caffè Nero, a chain of European coffee houses aiming to open on Centre Street beside Blanchards, showed the Jamaica Pond Association renderings Monday night. Take a look.
![Carlos B. Icaza, second from right, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Here he is seen at the June 2014 meeting of the JP Business & Professional Assoc. at Spontaneous Celebrations.](http://jpnews2018.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSC_0006-600x450.jpg)
Carlos B. Icaza, well-known in JP for his civic work with organizations like the JP Business & Professional Assoc., died Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014.
According to his death notice at legacy.com, “Born in Hampden, Conn., Carlos was a reader, thinker, writer, adventurer, storyteller and troublemaker.”
Icaza was a union carpenter and president of Just Small Jobs Inc.
A celebration of his life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 at The Parish of All Saints, 209 Ashmont St., Dorchester. The family asks that instead of flowers, gifts be sent to Community Servings, 18 Marbury Terrace, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.