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...surge's successes and limits are both plainly visible on al-Kindy today. A well-stocked pharmacy has reopened. A new cell-phone store selling the latest in high-tech gadgets opened in December. A trickle of shoppers moved along the sidewalks on a recent chilly morning as a grocer, who asked that his name not be used, surveyed the local business climate. "Things are improving slightly," he said. "But not as much as we hoped." Indeed, if al-Kindy is coming back, it is doing so slowly, unevenly?and only with a lot of well-armed help. Sandbagged checkpoints...
...business would not break into an environment in which, seemingly, attracts only banks and national chains. For the last year and half, HRES has leased the vacant space at the corner of Brattle and Church streets at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James W. Gray, associate vice president of HRES, termed it could not simply be left up to other landlords. Although HRES has declared that it would not employ these methods in the future, rather than forswear...
...played a great drunkon TV's Bewitched and a range of comic characters on sitcoms like Hogan's Heroes and The Bob Newhart Show. But any baby boomer knows comedic character actor Dick Wilson as Mr. Whipple, the beleaguered grocer in toilet-paper ads who begs of customers, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin." The iconic ad campaign, which ran from 1964 to 1985, rocketed Wilson into pop-culture history--and national fame. "Everybody says, 'Where did they find you?'" the veteran actor told a reporter in 1985. "I say I was never lost...
...many ways, Harvard Square is a village, and the village needs a grocer,” she said...
...article "Grocer Coming to Square" incorrectly stated that it cost Harvard University several million dollars to rent space at the corner of Brattle Street and Church Street for the last year and a half while it searched for a grocer to fill the space. In fact, the cost was estimated at several hundred thousand dollars...