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Comings and Goings of Businesses in Cambridge, Mass

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Harvard Square in All Seasons

By Mater Al Mishalawi

Harvard square is a wonderful location.

I can imagine grape vines in summer as shade, with tourists walking underneath along the general street.

Also, jasmine flowers planted for their fragrant aroma, intermingling with the breeze to give the area a sense of romance.

In wintertime we can light bonfires in the square.

Translated from Arabic by Ali Karimi

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LOVE THIS!

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We are seeing a rapid decline in quirky areas of Harvard Square. What does Somerville got that we don't? They seem to be able to keep a healthy mix of local and national biz. The City of Cambridge has to see that we care about Harvard Square and want to participate in the design process. We should be aiming for the top, not the bottom.

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We support Great Design for Harvard Square! 

Check out Petition from our friends at OurHarvardSq:

http://bit.ly/greatdesignharvardsquare

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Dow Sterns sold the Abbott Building to Equity One for more than $80 million in 2015, ‘which was probably four to five times what any rational person would imagine it was worth,’ Sullivan said. 'So this new owner, needs to make their money back, and that’s where the pressure was coming from.’

Charlie Sullivan, Cambridge Historical Commission Chair

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>6 Church St  Theatre Holding Companies Agent: Dattco 617-262-6620

Promotorio & Merge Architects propose mixed-use theater structure 

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>60 Church St Market in the Square. Will be vacant soon. 

Owner: 50 Church Street Realty Trust, John DiGiovanni, Trinity Property Management, Inc. 

BZA decision #9773 and #9670, April 30, 2009, to grant Gallante Architect Studio to construct Roof above Atrium. Atrium to not be used for any other use than as an Atrium.  Atrium Ventures Inc.: Elliot Feiner and Daniel Feiner in partnership with Louis F. DiGiovanni and John P. DiGiovanni

Trinity Property Management, Inc., formerly known as A & M Maintenance, Inc.

Cambridge Highlands LLC (2013) CAMBRIDGE OFFICES, INC. (1992)  LEDGEMOOR, LLC (2016) 

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Sauntering down Mount Holyoke, Brattle Street, Massachusetts Ave. 

>25 Brattle St HIDDEN SWEETS: Store for candies & chocolates by the pound, retro sweets, party items & tourist-geared gifts.  Agent: Strategic Retail Advisors (SRA) 508-405-1918 > 30 Plympton St  (at the Butt of the Harvard Lampoon)

June 30, 1980: BZA Petition #4752 to convert to storefront, as it had been used for a dry-cleaning business since 1930.  Ownership: 30X Plympton Trust, Benjamin Jacobson, Trustee. Deed: Book 7525 page 293

>42 Bow Street

Trustees of Harvard Lampoon (Tyler Chapman, Thomas Beale, Edward Widmer) deed the Lampoon to Castle Realty Trust (Allison Averill, Margaret H. Child, John D. Spooner), February 2016

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Elephant Walk, 2067 Massachusetts Ave, last seen August 2016. 

Leasing Agent: Avison Young, 617-366-1001 

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Elizabeth Grady, 2166 Massachusetts Ave, last seen September 2016, Google Streetview

Leasing Agent: Roy Papalia (exclu agent) 617-484-7474

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When I was [at Harvard], there was not a lot of national chains and now, all of Harvard Square is a national chain.

Anthony Ackil, Harvard ‘99 Founder of b.good  http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/24/harvard-square-more-chains/

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2180 Massachusetts Ave: Nimah Market

1700-1706 Massachusetts Ave: Raspberry Beret, Honeycomb Creamery, Harvard House of Pizza

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Raspberry Beret to Move 3 blocks from Harvard Square, August 2017. Will other businesses follow suit?

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Davis Square to Harvard Square via Porter Square, ambling on Massachusetts Ave. 

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Walk #1-July 16, 2017

Davis to Harvard Square, ambling along Mass Ave