Square Business
Liquiteria in the Making
An employee at the Harvard Square Liquiteria prepares a smoothie behind the counter. Liquiteria offers fresh smoothies, cold pressed juices, and prepared foods.
Mean Green
The "Mean Green" smoothie, which has kale, spinach, mango, bananas, golden pineapple, and pineapple juice, is Liquiteria's best seller in Harvard Square.
Free Waffles
Steven Kunis '17 and Kathryn J. Gunderson '17 enjoy free waffles as part of Zinneken's four-year anniversary event on Tuesday evening. The shop made 800 waffles in preparation for the event, according to a representative.
College To Fund Student Dinners with Faculty
The College will fund small groups of students and faculty members to dine together at restaurants throughout Harvard Square.
Harvard Students ‘Devastated’ About Yogurtland Closing
A small but passionate and vocal group of longtime student-patrons who regularly frequented Yogurtland while it was in business described themselves as heartbroken over the closure.
Harvard Student Agencies Acquires Freelancing Startup
Harvard Student Agencies has acquired College Copywriters, a startup that connects student freelance writers with websites in need of content services.
Summer a Time of Transition for Square Businesses
Cabot’s Candy and the Boston Smoke Shop have opened up new storefronts in Harvard Square.
Mount Auburn Quiet, Students Flood Felipe’s and Tasty Burger
Students have flooded places in the Square such as Tasty Burger and Felipe’s Taqueria on weekends, to the point that attendees have had to line up to enter.
Cabot's Candy
Cabot's Candy, a Provincetown, Mass., based company specializing in saltwater taffy and fudge, is open for business inside the Zinnia Jewelry location on Massachusetts Avenue. It’s one of several new businesses that came to the Square this summer.
Liquiteria
Liquiteria, a new juice bar at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Church Street, opened this summer and serves smoothies, juice, and healthy snack options.
Candyland in the Square
Passerby walk past Cabot's Candy in Harvard Square on Thursday afternoon. The store, which opened July 22, sells a variety of candy including salt water taffy and fudge.
Zoning Board Delays Campus Center Plans a Second Time
Harvard is facing its first significant roadblock in its effort to renovate the Smith Campus Center.
Zoning Board Delays Decision on Campus Center Plans
Cambridge residents and members of the board at a public hearing on Thursday expressed mixed opinions of the plans.
Cambridge Planning Board Recommends Campus Center Plans
The unanimous vote to recommend Harvard’s plans to renovate the Smith Campus Center to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeal moves the construction plans one step closer to city approval.
In With The New
Allegra Zoller, a college graduate who has been working at the Harvard COOP for around 8 months, restocks books for the upcoming year. Harvard students have until May 17th to return and sell their books.
Mayfair Festivities
A man kneels over his chalk drawing at the 32nd Annual MayFair in Harvard Square. The Rotary Club of Cambridge’s annual Chalk on the Walk took place on Church St. Sunday.
Mayfair Festivities
Cambridge residents and visitors enjoy food from local businesses, games, free samples, and other activities at the 32nd Annual Mayfair held in the streets of Harvard Square on Sunday afternoon.
Hosiery Store Penti Closes
According to the store's former owner, the closure came so that he could consolidate Penti's merchandise with Brattle St. clothing retailer Monella, which he also owns.
Historical Commission Approves Campus Center Plans
The Commission heard two cases on the campus center, which Harvard administrators expect to undergo construction from 2016 to 2018, at a public hearing on Thursday.
Cambridge Bans Plastic Bags, Imposes Fee on Paper Bags
The law makes Cambridge the largest city on the East Coast to impose a ban on single-use plastic bags, Cambridge City Councillor Dennis Carlone said, and follows similar legislation in Brookline and Newton.
New 24-Hour CVS Opens at 6 JFK Street
A new CVS, complete with 24-hour service and a pharmacy, opened at 6 JFK St. Sunday several days ahead of its projected April opening.