Newton is approximately 7 miles west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, like Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, Newton Centre, and Newton Corner. Newton is without a city center. Newton’s nickname is: “The Garden City” and its motto is: “Liberty and Union”.
Newton was incorporated as a separate town (from a part of town of Cambridge) known as Cambridge Village, on December 15, 1681, then renamed Newtown in 1691, and finally Newton in 1766. It became a city on January 5, 1874.
The City of Newton is a growing community with affordable housing and plenty of available retail space for new businesses. Newton is an historic business-friendly community. The city of Newton always welcoming to visitors, new residents, tech entrepreneurs, and all value-added businesses.
Newton’s various communities embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many positive-minded and inspiring people and historic business-friendly neighborhoods.
The City of Newton is rolling out the “Welcome to Newton” welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new residents and more value-added businesses.
Business startups in retail sales, clothing, fashion, music, beauty, healthcare, legal, medical services, information technology, restaurants, online sales, cleaning services, beauty salons, barber shops, and new entrepreneurs are always in demand in a local growing business community. Shop Local! Buy Local!