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...Hollywood bright-lights, penny-pinching students, and vintage-clothing lovers who frequent the Garment District can all sigh with relief due to a recent compromise between storeowner Christopher Cassel and the city of Cambridge...
Earlier this year, the self-proclaimed “alternative department store” was in jeopardy of losing its crumbling, pink-brick home on 200 Broadway St. and being replaced with condominiums. A desirable piece of property lucratively plopped between MIT and a residential area, the Garment District plot had been eyed by developers as a prime location for expansion amid Cambridge’s booming real-estate market...
After seven months of negotiations, Cassell and business partner Tani Halperin agreed to sell the piece of land on Harvard St. behind the Garment District building to the city for $2.9 million—an extremely profitable deal for the partners since Cassell had originally bought the entire Garment District lot for only $3.4 million. Cassell and Halperin will be keeping the majority of their land for the store. The proceeds from the sale will fund much-needed renovations to the 115-year-old textile factory building, saving the Garment District from falling off Cambridge’s list...
...recent deal has also preserved the “family” of Garment District associates, according to Monique Machado, 25, a two-year employee at the Garment District...
...years. It’s just a part of the culture in Cambridge.” Ann Russell, 17, is one of those faithful customers. Although her home is in Cape Cod, roughly 100 miles away, Russell makes the trip to Cambridge nearly every weekend to shop at the Garment District for “all the cheap vintage stuff,” she said. Even as she dug through the racks of vintage, used, and name-brand clothes, she was already wearing a cotton, 70s-era housedress that she bought from the Garment District just the weekend before. Unlike...