Call it the new and improved Spyce: When the second location of the fast casual restaurant opens Wednesday in Harvard Square, it will debut with an updated version of the automated kitchen that first made a splash more than two years ago.
The Harvard Square Business Association collaborated with the mutual aid initiative Cambridge Community Fridge to bring a community fridge to Harvard Square in early January.
The motto at community fridges is simple: take what you need, leave what you can.
Denise Jillson is the Executive Director at the Harvard Square Business Association. Recently, she helped open a community fridge in Harvard Square at 52 Church St., the third community fridge in Cambridge.
The Fridge in the Square provides food and fellowship to an evolving neighborhood.
“Know that there are families in Cambridge, believe it or not, that are suffering from food insecurity,” said one of the fridge’s organizers.
COVID-19 has ravaged the bookstore industry. As the city of Cambridge locked down in late March, bookstore owners shuttered storefronts and faced challenging choices with both foot traffic and vital revenue screeching to a halt.
This year has been hard for Christos Soillis, whose shoe shop in Harvard square has seen most of its business dry up amid the pandemic.
Cambridge police nabbed a feathered foe who wandered into Harvard Square on Wednesday.
Denise Jillson, Executive Director of the Harvard Square Business Association, on the proposed new business restrictions in Cambridge
The number of COVID-19 cases has been up this week in Cambridge, so city councilors are now debating what to do next to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.
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