Demography is destiny: Truly Jorg’s is truly gone from Kenmore Square
Truly Jörg’s closed its Kenmore Square location last month. I don’t know if the closure was purely a function of revenue trajectory or the result of several factors, including revenue, staffing, logistics and the violent hold-up last May.
It’s definitely a set-back for the upscale vision of the post-ruffian so-called new Kenmore Square. The main problem for the new square is that is has more or less the same demographics to work with as the old one: Students, Red Sox fans and Lansdowne Street revelers. If the proposed One Kenmore Square high-rise attracts a more upscale crowd then maybe the Square can sustain the lofty visions, but one should not take for granted that the high-rise comes to fruition, nor that it will be filled mostly with non-students if it does, nor that its residents will shop Kenmore Square rather than Trilogy/Landmark Center a couple of blocks down Brookline Avenue (the OKS developer owns Landmark).
And the landfill in the heart of Kenmore Square still looks like shit.
