Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. After World War II he borrowed enough from friends and banks to buy an unused flour mill and two cigarette-making machines. Soon he was nearly broke. Rupert staved off disaster in 1948 by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market its brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa. Five years later he bought out Rothman for about $2,000,000. Since then he has ventured beyond tobacco road. He now produces some of South Africa's finest wines and brandies and has interests...
Both the garage and the Holiday Inn are part of an avid rush by local landowners to cast a plastic gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize...
Police radio: "Be advised that a group of 200 just left Flamingo Park. Many of the group have clubs. There's a male Negro, striped shirt, striped pants, waving a revolver in the mall. Six feet...
...movement to Consist--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...
Wassermanis most expensive Harvard Square development currently underway consists of changing a sizeable garage, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, into a shopping mall. The mall, to be named "The Garage," will contain specially and craft shops and spread over half a block, it pedestrian walk will connect Boylston St. to Dunster St. Work on The Garage has been in progress since winter, and the mail should open for occupancy this fall...