Help, please!

[hallie-mathia.livejournal.com]

Hi guys, my name is Hallie and I'm a college student at Emerson College.  I'm studying journalism, and one of my assignments this semester is to cover Davis Square -- basically, to follow and report on it through May.

I'm not from the area (I'm actually from Texas!) but I went to Davis this morning and walked around and honestly -- I fell in love.  What a great area!  I'm so excited I get to cover it!

I stumbled across this LiveJournal while doing some research, and I was wondering if any of you would be able to talk to me about Davis, what you like about it, what you as a community are doing for/with the area, etc.  I'd love any links or leads you could give me, or any stories you may want to see featured!  I'm all ears for what you guys have to say!

Thanks for reading this, and again -- any information you can give me is welcome and wonderful.  Thank you guys so much!!!  Have a great day :)

Hallie 

Comments

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

There have been loads of stories on Davis (a memorable lame: some Boston.com video "gurl" reporter thing "it's alll SOOO fabulousss." Ugh.. Was worse on video).

--The economics of DS - which businesses have survived and which didn't, and speculation as to why. (Bowl and Board, etc.)

--The Carberries curse (the space on Elm that seems success adverse)

--More gritty: the importance of places like McKinnon's, the Social Security office and Goodwill for keeping DS from becoming a completely gentrified and/or Harvard Ave. hell hole.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Bowl and Board didn't survive because they got way behind on the rent for their Brookline store, and weren't making enough elsewhere to catch up.

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

I followed the B&B fall and it was not quite as simple as that.

No matter, I was speaking from a DS POV: what B&B may have hoped for in moving here and what did or did not occur.

I have wondered at times how certain retail businesses survive here (-names redacted-). Glad to see that they have, but still.

[ron_newman]

NPR's series on Bowl & Board, in eight installments from December 2008 through November 2009. I don't think much of it focused on the Davis location, though.