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After seven months of negotiations, Cassell and business partner Tani Halperin agreed to sell the piece of land on Harvard St. behind the Garment District building to the city for $2.9 million—an extremely profitable deal for the partners since Cassell had originally bought the entire Garment District lot for only $3.4 million. Cassell and Halperin will be keeping the majority of their land for the store. The proceeds from the sale will fund much-needed renovations to the 115-year-old textile factory building, saving the Garment District from falling off Cambridge’s list...
...article said that the deal was "extremely profitable" for the Garment District's president, Christopher Cassell, and real estate developer Tani Halperin...
...real estate market are pressuring the “alternative department store” to change the way it does business and could lead to its historic building’s renovation or razing and replacement with condominiums, pending an agreement with building co-owner and real estate developer Tani Halperin...
...came up with shapes so breathtakingly elegant in their severe reduction of nature that they would have no Western parallel until Brancusi. The most extreme are probably those meant to suggest, in a notched and folded cliff of black lacquer rising from the brow, a landscape, specifically Ichi-no-tani Canyon, the site of a famous battle in the 12th century. And there are helmets whose fusion of unstated ferocity and formal elegance seems to epitomize the nature of Zen warriorhood. One, a 16th century filigree of gilded leather in the form of a courtier's hat, is simply inscribed...
...Since then, Tani has marched to a record sixth straight world championship, and at age 28, remains the preeminent female judoka of her era. A heel injury suffered just a month before the Olympics will make her quest for another gold the most difficult of her career, but Tani's competitiveness has trumped physical pain repeatedly in the past. "She is a born fighter," says Yasuhiro Muto, a judo writer for the Tokyo Chunichi Sports newspaper. "She is a contestant who hates losing. She changes color when it comes to a match...