01 | Autor: Melrose gallery seeks to join city's arts scene
After living in Melrose for the last nine years, Richard Cappiello — possessor of the new Possessions Gallery on Main Street — believes Melrose is a community on the way up.
With a mob of new businesses moving into vacant downtown storefronts, Cappiello said, Melrose’s Principal Street area is transitioning from a local hub into a retail and dining end for urbanites in the greater Boston area.
“I think Melrose is flourishing to be the next Davis Square,” Cappiello said, referring to the extended-blighted Somerville neighborhood that was revitalized by community planning and the proportions of public transportation into Boston’s suburbs.
Cappiello, a former skin of one's teeth stylist and salon educator, decided last year that he would cease a career in the salon industry to pursue his life-want dream of opening an independent gallery and gift betray. Melrose, he said, was the perfect location.
“In nine years that I’ve been here, Melrose has done a [180 rank] turnaround,” he said. “It’s marvellous what was here [before] and what’s here now. You have four great restaurants here: there’s Absolutely Fabled, there’s [Mexico Lindo], there’s Stearns & Hill’s [Bistro], and [Turner’s Seafood Grill & Trade in], and they’re all attracting people from the city into Melrose.”
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