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...embattled Crimson Sports Grille filed an application May 23 with the Cambridge License Commission to sell its business for $250,000 to Grafton, Inc., the company that owns the Temple Bar and the recently closed Grafton Street restaurant...
...approves the transfer, which Richard V. Scali, its Executive Director, said was likely due to Grafton's "good reputation," Grafton would open a new restaurant in the Grille's 59 JFK Street space as early as late August, according to owner Patrick Lee. Grafton still plans to reopen its original Grafton Street restaurant in the space formerly occupied by the Bow and Arrow...
...that he understood McCarthy had planned to sell the bar within the next few years, but that the process was expedited as the pressure from city and state authorities grew. Lee said that he thought McCarthy had been actively interested in selling the establishment for a year, and that Grafton's motivation in purchasing the Grille "was to open a place as soon as we could." Before the transfer application was filed, Lee said that the company's finances would be in jeopardy as long as Grafton Street, which is expected to reopen in mid-fall, remained closed...
...call it Yuppie FantasyLand—then all the changes that have happened in Harvard Square in the last few years start to make sense. We’ve lost many of the best mom-and-pop stores of the Square in the last few years, including Grafton Street, The Bow and Arrow, The Tasty, Videopros (soon to be gone), the movie theater on JFK Street, and Il Vicoletto. Though these losses have been sad for us actual students, extensive market research with Yuppie focus groups revealed that Yuppies just didn’t like these kinds of businesses?...
...really late, well, most theme parks close at midnight anyway, so what are they doing out so late? Park management also decided that too many Yuppie bars would ruin the tip the nostalgia/comfort balance too much in favor of Nerdistans like Waltham, so it decided to get rid of Grafton Street and expand the bank...