Word: neighborhood
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NationsBank and its big competitors emphasize new services, offering everything from mortgages to mutual funds via round-the-clock banking. "When we acquire a company in a new neighborhood, then obviously some of the things that customers have been accustomed to will change," says Lynn Drury, a NationsBank spokeswoman. "Some services can be added and some taken away. Some fees may go up and some go down. And because some people are uncomfortable with change, they might choose to go to another bank." Indeed, such refugees are enabling new local banks that stress service to customers to blossom...
Holmes Trust applied last fall to build a complex of apartments and shops in Central Square. After the plan was announced, many Cambridge residents protested, forming groups to elicit support from the neighborhood...
...particular, residents said they feared that more development--especially high-rise development--in Central Square might destroy the neighborhood's characteristic charm...
Many spoke on behalf of the neighborhood group Save Central Square...
...More than an organization, we are a cry of pain and outrage of what is happening to our neighborhood in Central Square," said Bill Cunningham...