Word: malls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People around here have been joking that if you put a roof over JFK Street, you’d have a mall,” says Adam Dicenso, who has worked at Pinnochio’s Pizza for the last 12 years...
...You’ve heard it many times by now--tt’s becoming an outdoor mall. Is it losing its identity? Of course it is. It’s losing the charm of the small business owner,” Hopkins says...
...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...
...exactly, retorts one World War II veteran who is among those leading the campaign to Save the Mall. Cpl. John Graves calls the memorial, as it is currently designed, "a grandiose fiasco, designed to destroy the heart of our National Mall to memorialize those of us who served in World War II." He is joined by other veterans, one of whom announced in May he would give up his Purple Heart if plans went forward to build the currently proposed monument. Veterans and conservationists are joined by environmentalists, who fear building the memorial in the Mall could disrupt local ecosystems...
...Harvard Provisional Store, known lovingly to those who can purchase alcohol as the Pro. Though less relevant to students’ lives, the closing of the classy Upstairs at the Pudding restaurant after a University buyout is another casualty. Instead of independent stores, Harvard Square now mirrors an outdoor mall. Staples joins Abercrombie & Fitch, Pacific Sunwear, Pizzeria Uno’s, Urban Outfitters and the Sunglass Hut, among the other chain stores that radiate from Out-Of-Town News...