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...Business is booming," said Doina I. Contescu '89, who operates the My Dog kiosk in the Shops by Harvard Yard. Contescu said that business was up by as much as forty percent from usual Saturdays...
...talked to said that no businessperson is going to accept such a lease and make an initial investment unless he or she gets the strong impression that there is long-term potential for his or her business. Licorish, J.B. Jain, who owns the Watch Works kiosk, and Doina I. Contescu '89, who co-owns the My Dog kiosk, all said they were told that they could renew indefinitely as long as they did well. (Mr. Levitan denies that any kiosk owner would have been told this...
According to Levitan, HPRE only began to seriously rethink the mission of the arcade this past November, and the final decision to "wind down the kiosk program" was announced at a meeting in late January. However, Reis and Contescu said they believe this is untrue...
Reis' lease became eligible for renegotiation last October. In late November he finally met with Levitan, who told him that his lease would not be renewed and that in fact no leases would be renegotiated. But Contescu's My Dog kiosk first opened for business in late November, and she was told nothing of the intended closing. In fact, when she expressed concern about the brevity of the kiosk lease, she was told that it was actually to her advantage because it gave her an easy out in case her business failed, and that she could renew indefinitely...
...None of us would have come if we'd had any inkling [that it would close so soon]," said Doina I. Contescu '89, co-founder of the "My Dog" kiosk...