{"id":84930,"date":"2023-11-16T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=84930"},"modified":"2024-12-20T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:11:40","slug":"popular-new-dog-bar-founded-by-city-planning-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/popular-new-dog-bar-founded-by-city-planning-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular New Dog Bar Founded by City Planning Alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU MET students come from all walks of life, and a degree earned here can lead you to unexpected places.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston area has a new hotspot, Park-9 Dog Bar\u2014a canine-friendly watering hole in Everett. It\u2019s the product of a BU MET alum, Tess Kohanski (MET\u201917), who earned her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/degrees-certificates\/ms-city-planning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master of City Planning<\/a>, along with her wife, Emily Gusse, and family. It\u2019s fast become a popular landing place, having welcomed 11,000 dogs through its doors since opening in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Founding an unconventional and innovative business\u2014and knowing how to navigate the myriad city-specific bureaucratic challenges one faces to get started\u2014is an example of the many different ways you can put a Master of City Planning earned at BU MET to use.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/alums-open-new-englands-first-dog-bar-park-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bostonia<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU MET students come from all walks of life, and a degree earned here can lead you to unexpected places. The Boston area has a new hotspot, Park-9 Dog Bar\u2014a canine-friendly watering hole in Everett. It\u2019s the product of a BU MET alum, Tess Kohanski (MET\u201917), who earned her Master of City Planning, along with her wife, Emily Gusse, and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21777,"featured_media":84932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,211,53,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91076,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84930\/revisions\/91076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}