“They have been terrific community partners and terrific landowners…Our hope is that the new owners will also be good stewards of these historic buildings,” said Denise Jillson, director of the Harvard Square Business Association. The sale of the two Brattle Street properties would mean that 102 year-old Brattle Square florist, and Cardullo’s, which has been in Harvard Square for more than 60 years, would likely be pushed out by higher rents, or even demolished. The holdings 1-8 and 17-41A Brattle Street, stretching from Black Ink through The Tannery, are two of the five buildings in Harvard Square owned by the trust (the other three are the flatiron Abbott Building, the Corcoran Building, and 18 Brattle Street, now part of demolition and renovation plans for a proposed mall). Purple Pins: Potential Sales on Brattle Streetīuildings marked by purple pins are part of a recently reported potential sale of storefronts, worth an estimated $95 million, by the Dow and Stearns Family Trust. The map below is a representation of Harvard Square in its current form purple and orange pins indicate potential construction sites, and green pins identify buildings that have seen multiple turnovers in the past century (including the Harvard Square Theater).Ĭlick the top right corner to expand the map: Purple and orange pins indicate potential construction sites, and green pins identify buildings that have seen multiple turnovers in the past century (including the Harvard Square Theater). Ave., and Church Street has the potential to drastically alter the face of the Square. Currently, the amount of construction being proposed along Brattle Street, JFK Street, Mass. A&F moved out of the space just five years later. Harvard Square’s businesses reflect consumers’ and developers’ changing interests one of the best examples of this changing tide was The Tasty’s replacement by an Abercrombie & Fitch in the fall of 1999, the heyday for the teen-centric retailer. Its old location remains empty months later, and D.C.-based chain, &pizza, has been trying to take over the space. Ave., and Brattle Street down to Brattle Plaza. In April, the Square’s Crimson Corner newsstand was forced to move from its prime location at the intersection of JFK Street, Mass. So far this year, the Square has bid farewell to locally owned businesses like Schoenhof’s Foreign Books, and Café Algiers. The latter closed in 2011 and reopened a year later as “The World’s Only Curious George Store,” and is now once again threatened. and Union Kitchen, next door to Wurst Haus on LaSalle Road.SIX YEARS AGO, this magazine ran an article reflecting on the many changes Harvard Square had undergone in the past 25 years: the losses of The Tasty Sandwich Shop and the Wursthaus, as well as the significant decline in independently run bookstores with the closing of the Globe Corner Bookstore and Curious George Books and Toys. Johnny’s Roadside in Hadley, Mass White Hut in West Springfield, Mass. Johnny’s Bar & Grille, The Boathouse, the Halfway House Lounge, Johnny’s Tap Room and Iya Sushi and Noodle Kitchen in South Hadley, Mass. location, was a Bean property.īean Restaurant Group locations include The Student Prince the two Wurst Hauses Johnny’s Tavern in Amherst, Mass. McLadden’s, the Irish pub that used to be in the 37 LaSalle St. Today, Yee owns and runs Bean Restaurant Group with business partner Peter Picknelly, a childhood friend who is now chairman of the board and CEO of Peter Pan Bus Lines. All are closed now the flagship Chicopee location closed in 2018. At its peak, the Yee family owned 12 Hu Ke Laus. His parents opened the Hu Ke Lau in Chicopee, Massachusetts, in 1965. Photo by Brad Horrigan | a native of Springfield, has spent a lifetime in the restaurant industry. West Hartford, CT – 3/31/21 – Wurst Haus brings German dining to West Hartford Center.
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