Harvard Sq.

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• • Coming Soon: Public Art Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • January 10th, 2020
  How does a “recovering” public servant keep busy as she transitions into her next professional re-invention? She attends a community meeting about a project she helped set in motion while in office, puts on her journalist hat, and writes about it. A slightly shorter version of my report on a January 7 community meeting about […]
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• • Continued Retail Troubles for Harvard Sq (10)
  • Jan Devereux
  • January 28th, 2019
  Scout magazine reports that Flat Patties may be the next local business to close in Harvard Square but not until later this year. In late 2017 Asana Partners, a Charlotte-based real estate equity firm with holdings valued at $15B, bought a chunk of the Brattle Street commercial district in what more and more appears to […]
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• • Link: Out of Town News Plaza Slated for Elevator Renovation, Kiosk Restoration (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • September 29th, 2018
  I'm quoted in this Harvard Crimson story about the Harvard Square kiosk and plaza renovations: "Devereux said she too wants to see both the T station headhouse and the escalators into the T station restored in the future." “It’s like fixing your house and doing everything but repainting the front door and front porch,” Devereux said. “It’s like ‘Yeah, but we have beautiful bathrooms upstairs and look at our kitchen, it’s really sexy, and out in the backyard, we planted a bunch of trees. Well how come you didn’t fix your front porch [if] it’s got a hole in the steps and the door doesn’t work?’”
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• • Harvard Sq Abuzz: The Good, the Bad & the Cheesy (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • July 20th, 2017
  New bikeway in Harvard Sq: Last week saw the first phase of the installation of a two-way parking-protected bike lane on Brattle Street between Mason Street and Brattle Square. With paint and new signage alone, we created a new link in the bike network and acknowledged a longstanding “desire line” for contra-flow bike traffic entering the […]
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