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title: Forum Reopens
description: The last business that was impacted by the Boston Marathon bombing reopened last night with a fundraiser for the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. See pics!
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# [Forum Reopens](https://www.charlesgate.com/blog/2013/08/16/forum-reopens)

 Written by [Michael DiMella](https://www.charlesgate.com/blog/author/michael-dimella) | Aug 16, 2013 4:00:00 AM

<https://www.charlesgate.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/photo-81-2-1.jpg>Last night, the last business affected by the [Boston Marathon bombing](https://charlesgaterealty.com/2013/boston/helping-in-the-aftermath-of-boston-marathon-tragedy/) reopened on Boylston Street. Forum, which was the site of one of the second explosion, held a private fundraiser to benefit the [Joe Andruzzi Foundation](http://joeandruzzifoundation.org/wp/). The event was a huge success for the foundation and showed the strength of Bostonians coming to support the restaurant.

The owner, Euz Azevedo, did a complete update of the space both upstairs and down. The ground floor has a sweeping bar that goes almost the entire length of the restaurant. The entire space is brighter and livelier which was the goal to help people erase negative memories. As Euz told the Boston Globe, “We made a decision to brighten the space,” he said. “We wanted to erase those memories that people had. I just didn’t want to open with the same look because if you come back to a place where something bad happened to you, you’re going to have those memories again.”

With our office only steps away from Forum, we stopped in to show our support and see the newly updated space. [Kelly Robbins](https://www.charlesgatepm.com), Gregory Kiep, and [Meredith Kiep](http://949.sites.hubspot.com/schedule-a-consult-with-meredith-kiep) were on hand and took some pictures of the event and space. Take a look:

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