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The Harvard Crimson
Blue Bottle Coffee Permanently Pours Out of Harvard Square
Blue Bottle Coffee turned its temporary Covid-wrought closure into a permanent one last month, leaving Harvard Square just three years after its opening.
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WCVB Channel 5
Boston-born entrepreneur hopes to educate and empower women at Cambridge cannabis shop, Yamba Boutique
Leah Samura is on a mission to empower women in the cannabis industry. She intends to do this with her own adult-use marijuana shop called Yamba Boutique. The store is located in a former police station in Cambridge’s Harvard Square and is still awaiting license approval from the Cannabis Control Commission.
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Chronicle 5 WCVB
Cannabis shop to open inside a former police station in Harvard Square
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Bloomberg Baystate Business
Janet Wu Interviews Dick Friedman, Part Two
Janet Wu sits down with the developer behind Boston’s new Four Seasons, The Charles Hotel, The Hyatt Regency Cambridge, and The Liberty Hotel, to name a few.
Dick Friedman has a number of new projects, and they have surprising locations.
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Spare Change News
Living the Pandemic Year in Harvard Square
Life being homeless on the streets of Harvard Square was tough, but I noticed last year a glimmer of hope.
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Bloomberg Baystate Business
Janet Wu Interviews Dick Friedman, Part One
Janet Wu sits down with the developer behind Boston’s new Four Seasons, The Charles Hotel, The Hyatt Regency Cambridge, and The Liberty Hotel, to name a few.
Dick Friedman has a number of new projects, and they have surprising locations.
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The Crimson
As Massachusetts Reopens, Harvard Square Businesses Regain Lost Momentum
After a year of uncertainty, Harvard Square business owners are looking forward to welcoming more tourists and students to the Square in the next few months, now that Covid-19 vaccines are readily available in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Eater Boston
Del Posto Alum Mark Ladner Will Come Home to Open an Italian Restaurant in Cambridge
The Belmont native, who has earned much acclaim in New York, will open a restaurant at the Charles Hotel in September — and yes, there will be lasagna
GBH News
Hanging In There: Small Business Survival During A Pandemic
When COVID shutdown Cambridge’s iconic Harvard Square, college students were sent home and tourists largely vanished. Small business there depends on both. But the majority of those small business has survived. See how two wildly different businesses fared.