Mandarin Danvers plans move to Uno's

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March 10, 2010

The Biz The Salem News Wed Mar 10, 2010, 05:45 AM EST

Mandarin Danvers Chinese Restaurant plans to move down Endicott Street to the former location of Uno Chicago Grill, town officials and a restaurant representative said.

"That's what I understand, but we have nothing formally filed to confirm that," Danvers Town Clerk Joseph Collins said.

Katy Wong, the daughter of the owner of Mandarin Danvers, said a lease has been signed and plans are in the works. She does not know when the move might happen, though it will be sometime this year.

The family operates six restaurants, she said. The 140-seat Mandarin Danvers has been open since 1992, according to its Web site.

The Uno location will provide an opportunity to expand. Mandarin Danvers is presently hemmed in inside the Endicott Plaza shopping center, which also contains a Market Basket supermarket and a Chuck E. Cheese's.

The new Mandarin location will include a sushi bar, a Chinese and Japanese menu, and a full bar, Wong said.

Uno Restaurant LLC closed its Danvers location last spring. The restaurant is on a hard-hit commercial stretch of Endicott Street across from the Liberty Tree Mall.

With the move, a liquor license dance is about to take place.

Uno had won approval to transfer its liquor license to a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise that wanted to open in a former Boater's World by Liberty Tree Mall. Those plans fell through. Since there cannot be two liquor licenses at the same location, that could pose a problem, as the Buffalo Wild Wings franchise had to transfer its license back to Uno's.

The problem may be solved, Town Manager Wayne Marquis and Collins both said, as a national chain is interested in Uno's liquor license and opening in another location in town. The officials did not say which national chain that might be.

Jewelry That Counts counts on Heritage

Jewelry That Counts, a Peabody home-based startup that makes a new type of functional jewelry for golfers — bracelets that act as golf stroke counters — has hired Heritage Industries of Northeast Arc for their assembly.

The bracelets are the brainchild of accountant and avid golfer Julia Tiernan of Peabody. They have polished glass beads that turn to allow the wearer to count strokes as they play each hole.

Tiernan and Jeannette Sullivan of Danvers started the company in October and are now selling the bracelets nationwide, Tiernan said Friday.

Tiernan said her fledgling company could have had the bracelets made in China, but decided instead to go with the skills of Heritage Industries, which is based at 16 Electronics Ave. in the Danvers Industrial Park.

The vocational division of Northeast Arc provides jobs to 120 adults with physical and developmental disabilities in sheltered work environments and at various job sites out in the community.

Tiernan said it costs more to subcontract American workers at Heritage than it does to manufacture bracelets abroad, but "we are perfectly happy with making less as long as we are helping out," she said.

Head of Lahey Clinic to step down next year

Lahey Clinic President and CEO Dr. David Barrett will step down in January 2011 and remain in a strategic leadership role until 2012, the physician-led, nonprofit group practice said in a statement.

Lahey's chairman, Irving E. "Chip" Rogers III, the former chairman and publisher of Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co. and The Salem News, has formed a search committee to look for a new head of Lahey starting in April.

"Lahey Clinic has experienced tremendous growth under Dr. Barrett's leadership," Rogers said in the statement. "During his tenure, the clinic has emerged as one of the most financially stable health care organizations in a very competitive and challenging region."

Barrett oversaw expansions at Lahey's medical centers in Peabody and Burlington.

Last summer, Lahey Clinic in Peabody completed a three-story, 65,000-square-foot addition complete with the new Sophia Gordon Cancer Center. The $50 million project also includes the renovation of Lahey's main facility, a former bank building adjacent to the Northshore Mall, into which Lahey moved more than 15 years ago.

Lahey's expansion coincides with the arrival of other new medical facilities on the North Shore, including the Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in Danvers, Beverly Hospital at Danvers Medical and Day Surgery Center in Danvers, and the construction of Boston Children's North in Peabody's Centennial Business Park.

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Staff writer Ethan Forman can be reached at 978-338-2673 or by e-mail at eforman@salemnews.com.

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