Wicked Local Cushing Square retailers, like Erin Brown, owner of The Blue Butterfly, opened her store at 113 Trapelo Road in Belmont in September 2019 with high hopes that The Bradford mixed use development located directly across the street would revive the area and make it a shopping destination, similar to Belmont Center. She never anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic which forced her to shut down six months later. She also wasn’t aware there was a lawsuit for $30 million filed against Toll Brothers, Inc., the developers, by Starr Capital Partners, LLC, former property owners in September 2017 over the retail portion of the property.