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Although the recent decision by Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) to convert the Shops by Harvard Yard into University-owned shops and services has raised the hackles of vendors, we support the University's prudent and financially astute move...
...meeting two weeks ago, HPRE officials told vendors who sell goods in the Shops that the University would begin renovating the ground floor of Holyoke Center this summer and would allow the vendors to operate until July. That gives the vendors two full three-month lease periods to move...
Although we sympathize with the vendors' plight, we believe HPRE has been more than fair by giving the vendors six months' notice. The University's decision plainly makes financial sense. And Harvard is going above and beyond its duty by helping the shop owners to relocate...
...shops were a financial boon for the University, that would be one thing. But "the arcade has not been the financial success that was originally anticipated," said HPRE Director of University and Commercial Properties Scott Levitan...
...Tuesday meeting with the Committee to Save The Shops by Harvard Yard, Levitan reaffirmed HPRE's decision not to renew the leases of the kiosk vendors...