A little bit of South Beach, FL in our socially conservative Commonwealth of Massachusetts? No, impossible.
Yet Partners Roy Hirshland, Greg Hoffmeister, and Mark Cote of T3 Realty Advisors just hosted an invite-only "Pool Party" on one of the few gorgeous days in June here. The venue you ask? Being the social miscreant, I'd of course never heard of it-- the Hotel Indigo, in Newton, MA. Incredible but true, it's a 9-iron from the Riverside T station if you wanted to be "green" in getting there. However, valets hovered about ever solicitous and helpful in stowing away the private transport.
The pool deck behind the hotel was the networking platform, and the restaurant just off the pool I'm told is where the cool make the scene after hours these days.
Prism Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, Grand Banks Capital and a number of others made the scene, hobnobbing with the successful digirati and tech influencers in the greater Boston area.
There's clearly a new watering hole for investors in Newton as an alternative to Johnny's Luncheonette, Flat Top Johnny's in Kendall Square Cambridge, Waltham's Naked Fish, or breakfast at Clio at the Elliot Hotel in Back Bay.
Hats off to T3 for throwing an edgy party, and rounding up a sizable group of Boston's innovation sector to catch up, do some scotch tasting or cigar sampling, and try to counterbalance the Vitamin D deficits we Bostonians have suffered so mightily from thus far this summer. For those who had to go to South Beach, Florida (or downtown Boston) finally there's a bit of hip on Route 128. For those less hip, the tip I got from someone at our firm before leaving the office was, "Well.... (frown, with a look-up-and-down at me) Take your socks off and just wear the loafers, and that'll have to do (eye-roll, sigh of exasperation at the meager assets they were being asked to work with)."
[Note: no request was made to write this as some sort of nefarious blog marketing ploy. Just a simple observer's kudo to the venue and organizers]
