NANTUCKET, MASS. (May 14, 2024) – The Culinary Center at The Corner Table has announced the addition of Chef Jason Smith as its new education director and resident event chef. Smith is chef owner of Oui.Cook and a culinary educator with more than 20 years of industry experience. In his new role, Smith will lead the…
PORTLAND, Maine May 8, 2024 — The Envision Resilience Challenge, a multi-university design studio and community engagement initiative developed by Remain Nantucket, announced today it is headed to Maine with eight universities set to participate. Portland, South Portland and the Casco Bay Islands have been selected as study sites for the 2024 fall design…
NANTUCKET, Mass. March 7, 2024 — The Hive, Nantucket’s first shared-use commercial kitchen facility and food business incubator, is expected to open in July, Remain Ventures announced today. The building at 5 Amelia Drive was acquired by Remain Ventures in July 2022 as a vision of philanthropist Wendy Schmidt to create a profitable, shared-use…
NANTUCKET, Mass. October 23, 2023 — Nantucket Footprints—a program of ReMain Nantucket—is releasing the first of a series of virtual garden tours starting October 23. The Nantucket Footprints Virtual Garden Tour is an immersive experience through various sustainable and resilient gardens that highlight their necessity within our local ecosystem alongside its natural beauty. Its goal…
NANTUCKET, Mass. October 16, 2023 — The Corner Table and Nantucket Culinary Center, run for the last seven years by Greg and Joy Margolis, will retain the name as it reopens under new leadership and management, ReMain Ventures announced today. The team, formed under the name Un Altro, will be led by operators Taylor Oliver…
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. May 16, 2023 — Six university partners—including two from the University of Massachusetts system—have been selected for the third iteration of the Envision Resilience Challenge taking place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, this fall as students develop innovative solutions for coastal communities to adapt to sea level rise. The 2023…
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. February 9, 2023 — The Envision Resilience Challenge, a semester-long design studio connecting interdisciplinary university teams with coastal communities to inspire adaptive and creative solutions to the challenges of sea level rise and climate change, will take place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts in the fall of 2023. Enlisting student…
CRANSTON, R.I. January 12, 2023 — The six university teams that participated in the 2022 Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge to design creative solutions to sea level rise have won the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-RI)’s annual student award, ReMain Nantucket announced today. The Envision Resilience Challenge is a semester-long…
NANTUCKET, Mass. August 31, 2022 — In support of Housing Nantucket’s goal to operate the new Wiggles Way affordable rental housing development with net-zero energy usage, ReMain Nantucket is helping to fund the construction of an on-site solar power installation. Housing Nantucket’s latest affordable rental housing development is currently under construction on Fairgrounds Road. The…
NANTUCKET, Mass. July 25, 2022 — With the goal of improving local and regional food systems on Nantucket and across the Northeast, ReMain Ventures has purchased 5 Amelia Drive as a site for a business incubator and commissary kitchen, the organization announced today. ReMain Ventures will work with Nantucket entrepreneur Karen Macumber to create…