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The baguette was hot, my feelings warm
By Marc Levy
Published: January 5, 2012
I think the Porter Square Panera Bread is here to stay for a while — and I suddenly have warm feelings to hope that’s so.
Harvard Square nightclub gets licensing OK
By Marc Levy
Published: January 3, 2012
The Sinclair, a live-music hall and two-story restaurant, is on track for a fall opening in Harvard Square.
Basement apartment district passes 7-2
By Marc Levy
Published: December 21, 2011
A plan for basement apartments passed 7-2 at Monday’s meeting of the City Council, despite councillors having a week to think it over since passing it 6-2 and a new round of comments from residents who are opposed.
Q&A: From grocery store to Constellation Center, Travis McCready talks future of Kendall Square
By Marc Levy
Published: December 15, 2011
The Kendall Square Association’s executive director is confident about the square, as well as about how many residents the square needs, how big a grocery store that calls for and that the Constellation Center will be great — whenever it arrives.
Basement units pass 6-2, pause a week for ‘reconsideration’
By Marc Levy
Published: December 13, 2011
A test basement apartment program is almost, but not quite, in place for 13 buildings in Cambridge, having been stalled for a week in a parliamentary maneuver called “reconsideration.”
Knucklebones opening Monday in Davis; Michaels coming to Porter
By Marc Levy
Published: December 4, 2011
Knucklebones, a provider and seller of athletic services and goods, has its “epicenter” grand opening Monday in Davis Square, and a Michaels art store is coming to Porter Square.
Project will add 429 apartments at Alewife, developer says
By Marc Levy
Published: November 16, 2011
For those who thought The Residences at Alewife were big at 227 apartments, here come The Residences at Fresh Pond — 429 apartments to be built about a half-mile away.
Coming soon: Candy and exercise
By Marc Levy
Published: November 16, 2011
The same conflicted twist of fate that put an ice cream shop by a gym in Porter Square has a new mismatch coming to the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue closer to Harvard Square.
The Sinclair could add music, comedy, food in massive amounts
By Marc Levy
Published: November 14, 2011
A 525-person live music and comedy club could come to Church Street in Harvard Square, and an indoor-outdoor restaurant space could be revived, if the License Commission approves a venture called The Sinclair.
Zynga wants those stock options back, Journal says
By Marc Levy
Published: November 10, 2011
The online game maker Zynga, which has some 35 workers in Central Square, is suddenly the poster child for a new kind of bad entrepreneurial behavior: the forced ungifting of stock options.