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...walk you often feel as manically neighborly as a Sesame Street extra. “Hello!” you want to cry to children being trundled past in strollers. Thoughtful merchandisers have adjusted window displays to your eye level; would-be Byrons nursing cups of coffee behind coffee shops?? plate-glass windows brood up at you. You hear bizarre, beautiful snatches of conversation. You receive unsolicited advice intended for other people. Sometimes you exchange smiles with strangers. If you take a walk now, you can find signs spring is coming: snowdrops, the firm green tips of daffodils...
...admirable selection) and their ilk but still looking to burn a hole in their pockets, Harvard Square luckily also seems to specialize in entirely useless stores designed purely to sell, well, things of various sorts to newly-flush students. Think entire parts of said “gift shops?? devoted to toys that look like assorted Japanese foods, fluorescent-colored hosiery and pasta in naughty shapes, and you’ll get a reasonably accurate picture of what one might buy on a spending spree in Harvard Square. The very existence of such stores seems to speak...
...despite a sluggish economy, competition on several fronts, high rents, she and other store owners say they’re faithful that their shops??with their specialty selections, high-quality service and long histories in the Square—will be able to make it through hard times...
Harvard already owns nearly 300 acres across the river in Allston, land similarly riddled with rail yards and auto body shops??and the site of Harvard’s much celebrated but as-yet undefined campus of the future...
...other direction, a string of commercial developments—mainly car dealers and auto repair shops??stretches toward a shopping center with K-Mart, Star Market and other chain retailers. The shopping center is also on Harvard-owned land...