Another retail cold spot
The other day I mentioned the difficulties that stores at the west end of the Beacon Street block at the St Mary Street T-stop face. There are of course other such retail cold spots. One is the northwest corner of the Comm. Ave. / Mass. Ave. intersection. Mothers, don’t let your children open up shop there. Over the past few years I have seen upscale food markets come and go in that rather large space with its huge windows. The problem, I think, is that there’s almost no parking available and little foot traffic, plus the store is wedged between the promising yet oddly distant demographics east of Mass. Ave. and the punishing student ones west of it.
