![]() and Eijk Van Otterloo of Marblehead, Mass., The News reported. His partners are David Blundin of Beverly Farms, Mass. “We’re going to transform Turner Hill into a prestigious private country club over the next several years, making it the best imaginable experience for every member and guest whenever they enter the property,” said David Masse, one of the three new owners and the one who, via his firm AAM 15 Management, will oversee all operations of the club. Three members acquired the 19-year-old club and all related property and buildings for $12 million earlier this year and are looking to the future. The new owners of The Golf Club at Turner Hill have big plans for the Ipswich, Mass. Masse, via his firm AAM 15 Management, will oversee all operations of the club. club for $12 million earlier this year, plans were put in place to expand the parking field, rehabilitate the mansion, add food-and-beverage features, and build an expanded clubhouse function hall. ![]() ![]() The new owner will build rental housing, he said, while Masse converts the hardware store into two apartments, to go with the four he already owns upstairs.When members David Masse, David Blundin and Eijk Van Otterloo purchased the Ipswich, Mass. When, after a decade-long search, Masse found a buyer for his parking lot across Sherman Street, he knew it was time to go. “We were still able to make a living, but there was not a lot of profit on it,” he said. But in the recent recession, most called off their renovations. In previous recessions, he said, many homeowners decided against hiring contractors but proceeded with improvements, doing the work themselves and buying from local stores. The rise of the big-box hardware store cut into that business, and the economic downturn of 2008 nearly decimated it, Masse said. He lost business when those companies moved away, he said, but the store survived on sales to contractors building and renovating homes. Near present-day Alewife Station was an industrial park with steel companies that bought goods at his store. ![]() Peters Field and Danehy Park are now, that used to be the Cambridge dump,” he said.īefore that, Masse said, it was the New England Brick Co. “When I started working here 60 years ago, across the street where St. Over the decades, David Masse watched the area’s transformation. Upon his death in 1953, he passed the store on to his son Frederick, who passed it on to his son David when he died in 1992. He founded the store at 26, buying a building diagonally across the intersection from the spot where he built its current location in 1900. Four years later, he borrowed $20 and took a train to Cambridge, getting off at Sherman Street and finding work that day at a bakery down the street. Masse is the grandson of FX Masse, who left his family farm in Quebec at 12 and took a job to help support his 15 siblings. He and his wife of 31 years, Patricia, plan to devote themselves to travel - she has her eye on a trip to Italy, for starters. “I’ve been coming in every day for 60 years.” “I’m looking forward to retiring,” he said. While customers reminisced Tuesday, David Masse sounded more pragmatic. He told the famous chef he was making stuffed peppers for dinner. I said, ‘I’m buying doorknobs,’ and she said, ‘Strangely, so am I,’ ” Harlow said, imitating at Child’s distinctive, burbling voice. “I said, ‘Miss Child,’ and she looked over. buying doorknobs, and I looked over next to me and there was Julia Child,” he said. Harlow’s favorite memory involves a chance run-in with a famous Cantabrigian. “I just wandered in as a stranger, but I kept coming back and it started to feel more like home,” he said. Robert Harlow, 68, said he’d been a customer since 1974.
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