Meetings Ahead
Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details.
Thursday, July 7
- Council on Aging Board, noon, Veterans Memorial Community Center
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m., Town Hall
Monday, July 11
- Select Board, 6 p.m., Town Hall
Tuesday, July 12
- Licensing Board, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13
- Cemetery Commission, 3 p.m.
Thursday, July 14
- Public Pier Corp. Board, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Developer Consumes Soft as a Grape
The developer of a proposed hotel at 227R Commercial St., better known as the Old Reliable Fish House, has purchased the two buildings next to the hotel site for $4.6 million.
Ownership of 227 and 229 Commercial St. was transferred on June 30 from Scott Ravelson to Christine Barker. Ravelson’s buildings house Soft as a Grape and Essentials.
This ends a lawsuit between Barker and Ravelson, who owned the narrow roadway between Commercial Street and the Old Reliable. Without that entryway, the hotel would have no street access.
Barker would not reveal her plans for the newly acquired property. She told the Independent on July 5 that she must go through a new design and regulatory permitting process with the town. Last year, the zoning and planning boards approved her proposal to turn the derelict Old Reliable into a 31-room hotel, four residential condos, a restaurant and bar, a meeting space, and some parking. She also plans to reconstruct the ruined pier.
The Old Reliable sale still cannot be finalized because there is a remaining abutter, Patrick Patrick, owner of Marine Specialties, who is suing the town and Barker over permitting.
Other neighbors involved in the suit, Canteen owners Rob Anderson and Loic Rossignon, have settled with Barker.
The longtime Old Reliable owner, Bradford Rose, has not paid property taxes or responded to the town’s orders to secure the building, which has been the site of two recent fires. Town Manager Alex Morse recently told the select board he is obtaining bids to put a fence around the property. He plans to put a lien on the deed so the new owner will have to repay the town for security measures. —K.C. Myers
