THIS WILL WORK RIGHT NOW IF YOU HAVE ALREADY CREATED a GOOGLE+ BUSINESS PAGE with LOCAL set as the CATEGORY.
After you verify your G+ Business page then it will merge with your Place Page and you'll have ONE page, with all the Places features like reviews AND all the social features combined.
AND ALL WILL BE MANAGED INSIDE G+. (No more Places dashboard.)
Like I said this is BREAKING right now. All details aren't in yet. Don't even have help doc links yet. Stay tuned to this thread for updates as they break!
See it on Scoop.it, via Google Places Optimization & Local SEO News
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