University News | 12.6.2019

Updated 12.16.2019

Restructuring Harvard Square

A familiar place’s new faces

From The January-February 2020 Issue

Photograph of major construction projects in Harvard Square

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Returning visitors may find themselves disoriented as familiar haunts undergo major makeovers, shown here in mid November. The triangle between JFK and Brattle Streets (foreground) is being rebuilt as a high-end retail mall. The offices over Brattle (plywooded windows to the rear), also in new ownership, are being renovated. And Out of Town News has closed.

Published in the print edition of the January-February 2020 issue, in the John Harvard's Journal section, under the headline, “Restructuring Harvard Square ”.

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