Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past year several small Harvard Square businesses like Grolier have left the Square for more fruitful markets in nearby neighborhoods. They cite the increasingly homogenized customer base, inconvenient and crowded location and comparatively high rents as reasons for seeking new homes. As the Square loses its diversity of stores, the people and essence of the neighborhood are changing...
Last month McIntyre & Moore Booksellers moved its stock of used books from Harvard to Davis Square. Owner Daniel Moore says he is happier there, where the neighborhood and costs are more in line with the way Harvard Square was when Moore founded his shop 15 years ago on Mount Auburn Street...
...covering damaged paper book jackets with durable plastic covers, Moore lamented the change in his old neighborhood. He estimates that 30 percent of his customers once lived in Cambridge, but that number halved after residential rent control ended in the mid-90s, forcing many of his customers into lower-rent areas...
...viewed as a pretty interesting neighborhood," Moore says. He adds that the square was named as one of the nation's 15 up-and-coming neighborhoods in the Utney Reader, which he describes as a "yuppie magazine...
Charney also led a committee that opposed Harvard's original plans for the construction of the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies, which residents complained would take away precious green space from the neighborhood...