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Seok-hee Lee, product manager for MoMA Retail, which has sold 3,500 of the dolls since January, thinks they're here to stay. "The more you get to know each character, the more you get attached," she says. As for Nakamura, he still displays the dolls in his storefront window. "We don't carry fad items, and if we do, they burn out especially fast," he says. "Uglydolls are a constant seller. They hit an emotional chord in people...
...known?prefer to get around by boat when they can. Newly reinvigorated by a burgeoning young population of trendy, extravagant professionals like Kocabiyikoglu, Istanbul is suddenly the focus of luxury-goods purveyors looking to expand in what up to now has been a small market. Fendi has three retail doors with a fourth on the slate, Louis Vuitton is expanding its small store on the Asian side of the Bosporus next year, while Dolce & Gabbana, Dior and Prada are all actively looking for appropriate sites on the European side...
...deserted at night, and, in order to revitalize the area, several of the leases were not renewed. “The idea at the time was to make the arcade a more lively, more comfortable space,” she says.More recently, in February 2004, Harvard evicted all the retailers from 90 Mt. Auburn St. and demolished two century-old buildings in order to build what is now a Harvard library administration building. James W. Gray, the associate vice president of HRES, says that these examples do not detract from the University’s mission to encourage local business...
...Kramer has run the Harvard Square landmark since 1962—witnessing renovations, expansions, and the openings and closings of several satellite stores—and his experience in retail has made him a passionate believer in the benefits of locally owned businesses over chains, such as Borders or Waldenbooks...
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...