Word: licorish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first opened in the fall of 1993, HPRE--which was then Harvard Real Estate (HRE)--went out of its way to entice merchants to the arcade by creating the impression of considerable retail potential. HPRE wined and dined prospective merchants and threw a huge gala opening. Irma B. King Licorish, proprietor of the Caribbean-African Creations kiosk, said she feels Harvard "enticed us in here under false pretenses...
...three months, a fact Scott Levitan stresses. However, every single merchant I 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...