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After a year of uncertainty, Harvard Square business owners are looking forward to welcoming more tourists and students to the Square in the next few months, now that Covid-19 vaccines are readily available in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Theodora M. “Theo” Skeadas ’12, executive director of Cambridge Local First, a non-profit network of over 450 local and independent businesses in the city, said the Square would “rebound,” though she recognized that recovery will be “difficult” for some businesses. “People are really excited to be social and reconnect, and I’ve been w...

As students trickle back into Cambridge for the spring semester, Harvard Square business owners said they are hoping to see sales pick back up after a challenging year and quiet winter break. When students left campus in November for winter break, many business owners said they feared not being able to survive into the spring. Some tried to negotiate rental costs with their landlords, while others, including Café Pamplona and Wellbridge Athletic Club, permanently closed in the months prior. Alex W. Meriwether, general manager of the Harvard Book Store, said it has been a “difficult ye...