Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf has lived within walking distance of Harvard Square for 35 years...
...past 10 years or so, Wolf has seen the Square undergo a gradual metamorphosis that she says she finds "disappointing." Many of the distinctive specialty shops and family-owned retail stores she used to walk by are gone, replaced by big-name chain outlets and trendy yuppie havens. Where once she saw a panoply of individualistic store fronts, she now sees a high-rise facade of modernized merchandising...
...tended to be a unique place," Wolf says. "If anything, it's sort of getting younger. There are people over 19 who go to Harvard Square, [but] it's sometimes hard to find businesses that serve them...
...Wolf says she has noticed "a physical difference, a difference in who is being served [and] a difference in Harvard Square's difference from other places...
According to Wolf, much of the developmental environment in the Square is rooted in the dichotomy between the needs of small business and national business...