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...first time in the University’s history that it has displaced Square businesses to make way for its plans. Harvard claims that these projects help preserve the vitality of the Square and that it strives to protect independent businesses in the area.But some local business owners vehemently disagree.“My family has been here for three generations but [the University has] been a bully with family businesses,” says Yale I. Turner, the owner of Vision House Opticians on JFK Street.His business first opened in the Holyoke Center, but he says his rent...
...Salman Rushdie booked for the week the fatwa was issued,” the owner of the Harvard Book Store, Frank Kramer, excitedly explained while pointing to a promotional poster for Rushdie’s appearance on the wall. “Borders and Waldenbooks pulled his books from their displays, but we talked to all our employees and said, ‘You don’t have to work now if you don’t want to, but we’d like to keep the books...
Kramer says his strong belief in helping local businesses compete with chains stems in part from his own trying experience as a local business owner competing against a non-local store...
Both Kramer and Simon E. Shapiro, owner of Tags Ace Hardware, share concerns about the future of local businesses in Cambridge’s changing retail environment...
...Calling kids who come home "boomerangs" is mean-spirited. A boomerang is a weapon designed to be thrown out into the world, and if it doesn't hit any target, it comes back to its owner. Is this the right metaphor for our young people? We've actually designed them to either go out and destroy things or return to us in failure...