Just one month shy of the five-year anniversary of the closing of Harvard Loews, real estate mogul Gerald Chan announced plans to bring a movie theater back to the beloved spot. Chan and his team at Kirche LLC presented their idea Wednesday, May 31, for a multi-use space that would include a theater with two screens, ground-floor retail and offices on the top floors, according to a Kirche press release.
Bookbinder and auxiliary police volunteer, friend to the homeless and to those who call Harvard University home, Bob Marshall was a fixture in Harvard Square for more than 45 years.
March 31, 2017
The owner of the former Harvard Square Theater property has not made public his plans for the property more than a month after the Cambridge City Council gave him 30 days to do so. The theater was a Harvard Square icon from its opening in 1925 until it closed in 2012. Morningside Group, a firm headed by billionaire investor and Harvard donor Gerald L. Chan, purchased the property in 2015 from real estate developer Richard L. Friedman.
The city has formally appointed a working group to help the city manager figure out what to do with the Harvard Square Out of Town News kiosk.
Crimson Corner’s 54 year run at its marquee location in Harvard Square is coming to an end next month. Third generation owner Chris Kotelly said Monday the newsstand will move April 10 to 35 Brattle St., about a two minute walk from its current location.
Plans are moving forward to convert a portion of an historic house first built more than 200 years ago in Harvard Square into a place for registered patients to purchase medical marijuana products.
The Cambridge Planning Board on Feb. 28 voted in favor of a special permit for Healthy Pharms Inc., to operate a dispensary at The Red House, a restaurant packed tightly among other businesses along pedestrian-friendly Winthrop Street.
In the most recent iteration of a beloved Cambridge store shuttering due to high rents and low sales, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books will close its Harvard Square store at the end of March after 161 years of continuous business in the Boston area. The store will continue to exist online, as employees turn their focus on beefing up the website, but the brick and mortar at 76 Mt. Auburn St. will no longer exist after March 25.
Cambridge officials are marking the fifth year of the closing of the former Harvard Square Theater by threatening an extraordinary intervention if the owner of the long-vacant property doesn’t quickly move forward with redevelopment. The move comes as the City Council is considering an ordinance to discourage real estate investors throughout Cambridge from the practice of “land banking,” or sitting on vacant properties for long periods for later profit with no intention of redeveloping them.
The City Council is demanding answers from the owner of the vacant Harvard Square Theater on what he plans to do with the property. The council voted unanimously to have the City Manager is notify the owners of the old Harvard Square Theater that they must respond in writing to the City Manager within 30 days with their long-terms plans are for the 10 Church St. property. The property has been vacant for nearly five years, and was purchased by Gerald Chan in 2015.
After 161 years of business, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books plans to permanently shutter its doors on March 25. Schoenhof’s, the self-described “oldest and largest foreign language-only bookstore in the United States,” was originally founded in Boston in 1856. The store moved to Cambridge in the early 1900s and has been at its Mount Auburn St. location in Harvard Square since 1983.