New life for an old ‘Garage?’ Plans filed to remake a Harvard Square landmark
Indeed, The Garage was once a parking garage. Before that, it was the home of stables for the horse-drawn trolleys.
CAMBRIDGE — Another landmark building in Harvard Square may soon be undergoing major changes, the Globe’s Tim Logan reports.
Trinity Property Management, which owns The Garage, on the corner of Mt. Auburn and John F. Kennedy streets, has filed plans with the city to redevelop the funky multistory shopping center into a more modern retail and office complex.
“It’s a cool place,” said Trinity’s president, John DiGiovanni. “But it’s brutally difficult to make it work for retailers with a driveway up the middle.”
Indeed, The Garage was once a parking garage. Before that, it was the home of stables for the horse-drawn trolleys that ran between Harvard Square and downtown Boston in the late 1800s. In the 1970s, it was converted into an indoor mini-mall — all ramps and escalators — that has long housed a variety of eclectic businesses, including anime stores, the Hempest, and Cambridge’s first tattoo parlor. Today, it remains one of the few remaining pockets of Harvard Square’s weirder days.
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