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	Davis Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Davis Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Holland Street, Dover Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue.
		The Davis Square station is one of the stops on the Red Line of the MBTA.
		Davis Square was in 1997 listed in the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen "hippest places to live" in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Davis_Square (270 words)

	Porter Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porter Square is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares.
		Porter Square was named for the now-vanished Porter House Hotel, operated by Zachariah B. Porter, who also left his name to the hotel's specialty, the cut of steak now known as the porterhouse.
		The square was an important center for commerce and light industry as early as the late 18th century, though it began a period of gradual decline during the Great Depression as residents began moving to more rural areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porter_Square (387 words)

	Creighton University
		Davis Square is named in honor of the Davis family and the Lauritzen family, whose history is entwined with that of the Creighton family, Creighton University and the city of Omaha.
		The Davis and Lauritzen families, along with First National Bank, were honored as Creighton officially unveiled the Davis Square name during a dedication ceremony Thursday outside the new residence halls at 21st and Webster streets.
		Davis Square will be joined by two additional town squares and a student service center in the not too distant future.
	www.creighton.edu /PubRel/newsrel/2004_releases/09022004_Davis.html (819 words)

	Davis, Simon square off in campaign's only debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Davis, who set aside $760 million in state funding to help pay for a 16-mile extension of BART from Fremont to San Jose, said the state is putting $7 billion into road work this year.
		Davis said had he known what he knows today about Enron Corp., he would have asked the U.S. Attorney General to put at least one Enron executive in prison.
		Davis twice mentioned his service in Vietnam (Simon did not serve in that war) and repeatedly painted Simon as a candidate of the political right who opposes choice for women and is against gun control.
	www.acssonline.org /news/20021007-Davis-Simon-debate.asp (653 words)

	MBTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Davis Square has long been the primary commercial center in Somerville, a city of 76,000 adjacent to Cambridge and Boston.
		Today, Davis Square is a vibrant urban center that boasts a mix of retail, office, institutional, residential, and entertainment uses.
		In Davis Square, the City of Somerville, the Davis Square Task Force, and the MBTA successfully partnered to create a vibrant, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use activity center anchored by the two entrances to the Red Line station in this established urban neighborhood.
	www.mbta.com /projects_underway/tod_examples_davis_square.asp (999 words)

	Davis Square History & Area Information
		Davis Square, once a thriving commercial center, experienced a gradual decline in the post-World War II era.
		That same year, the Davis Square Task Force was formed, composed of local business owners, residents and local officials, to act as a citizens’ advisory committee regarding the revitalization plans and to address a major concern that was dividing the community on the type and extent of development.
		A bicycle path connects Davis Square to the towns of Arlington and Lexington, and bus stops, used by the MBTA and the Tufts University van service, connect local residents to the subway line.
	bershad.com /gb/davis-square/DavisSq_moreinfo.html (1991 words)

	Chicago Park District
		Davis Square was one of ten innovative parks which opened in 1905 to provide social services as well as breathing spaces to Chicago's congested tenement districts.
		Davis served as the chairman of physiology and general pathology for Rush Medical College.
		Davis was also a prolific writer of medical texts and for many years served as editor of the Northwestern Medical Journal.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/9E65E64A-18DB-44A0-878F-FBB242BEB20F.cfm (274 words)

	Davis Square Now Hipper Than Ever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some of the popular "HANGOUTS" in Davis Square are surprised by the news that this area is nationally ranked by the magazine but acknowledge that the square has come a long way.
		Davis Square shares this honor with areas all over the country and in Canada, from the Lower Garden District in New Orleans (ranked number one) to Los Feliz in Los Angeles (number 11) to Commercial Drive in Vancouver, Canada (number nine).
		The implication of the article is that Davis Square's "hip" rank is far less stable than the bronze statues that decorate its sidewalk.
	bershad.com /gb/press/observer-dav-sq-hipper-article.html (441 words)

	Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Somerville's Davis Square is home to a burgeoning coffeehouse district and a soon-to-be Starbucks.
		Davis used to be a mixture of working-class families, Tufts students, and random slacker types killing time in rock bands and MFA programs.
		And, after all, it's not the East Village, it's Davis Square -- though on a recent afternoon, that geographic and cultural distance seemed blurred, as a woman seated with her child barked at her husband to use his cell phone to make a dinner reservation (it wasn't that obnoxious, actually; the reservation was for Bertucci's).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/99/06/24/COFFEE.html (2347 words)

	Changing menu in Davis Square - The Boston Globe
		This week the seafood restaurant Out of the Blue is scheduled to relocate to the heart of Davis Square in the spot where an independent boutique once did business -- a fitting symbol of the change the area is seeing.
		According to several retailers and property managers, retailers are having a tough time in the square, and restaurants are starting to take their place; the square has seen at least four retail shops close their doors in the past 13 months, and the wheels are in motion for three new eateries.
		Rocco Antonelli, who owns over 60,000 square feet of property in Davis Square, said retailers are not his first preference when looking for tenants.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/01/22/changing_menu_in_davis_square (746 words)

	Seven Hills: Ode to Davis
		"If I could be a place, I would want to be Davis Square." That's what a certain friend said to me several years back, and it was one of those things I wished I had thought of myself.
		People still talked about the T stop being "new"(it was built in '85) and the few trendy spots were vastly outnumbered by family businesses and storefronts that looked like they'd been there since the '40s.
		Now ten years later a lot is the same about Davis Square, but a lot has changed.
	somervillain.blogspot.com /2005/10/ode-to-davis.html (764 words)

	Somerville travel guide - Wikitravel
		Residents sometimes avoid the crowds and hit their favorite spots in Union Square and the Winter Hill area, which are out of the range of the T (but are accessible by car and bus).
		The Somerville Theater in Davis Square is a nice, fairly cheap 2nd-run theater that sometimes has independent titles as well as live musical acts.
		It is only a 15 minute walk from the Sullivan Square Orange Line station, and there are MBTA [11] buses arriving from Central, Harvard, Porter, Davis, Lechmere, and Sullivan Square T stops.
	wikitravel.org /en/Somerville (1633 words)

	The Daily Free Press
		The Davis Square T station was built in 1985 as an extension to the Alewife Line on the Red Line.
		Davis Square statues, built by James Tyler, were modeled after real people who lived in and around Davis Square.
		Hoffman said Tufts students frequent Davis Square because it is on the way in and out of Boston.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/news/2004/11/30/News/Boston.By.T.Davis.Offers.Hint.Of.Boston-816830.shtml (452 words)

	Features
		Davis Square gets most of its hip cachet from nearby Tufts University, a liberal bastion, judging from the eclectic mix of students that pepper the square.
		But Davis Square is also a blue-collar neighborhood where the elderly mix easily with the young, where various ethnic groups mingle, where a Dunkin' Donuts abuts an authentic Irish pub, where one of the best gourmet restaurants in town sits next door to a vintage diner.
		Perhaps the anchor of hip in the square is the Someday Cafe (51 Davis Square.
	www.planetout.com /travel/article.html?key=438&sernum=6440 (1175 words)

	SurfaceCity :: Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1997 Utne Reader named Davis Square one of "the hippest places to live" in the US.
		As much as its residents are responsible for making a neighborhood what it is, Davis Square is also defined by both its decades old local businesses and its recent arrivals.
		Like most other squares in Boston, Davis Square isn't really a square, and it seems smaller than most of the other retail areas that neighborhoods are built around.
	www.surfacecity.net /boston.php?subject=neighborhoods&city=Somerville&doc_id=301 (728 words)

	The Somerville News: Davis Square a music platform
		A professor in ethno-musicology and her daughter enjoy performing together at the platform of the Davis Square MBTA subway stop.
		“Davis Square is my favorite station to play at because its natural resonance and fantastic mezzanines allow my to really throw my voice,” said Harriotte H. Ranvig, whose academic specialty is the classical music of Northern India.
		“I moved to Davis Square in 1983 because I was working in downtown Boston, and I wanted to be close to the subway station when it opened,” she said.
	somervillenews.typepad.com /the_somerville_news/2004/08/davis_square_a_.html (309 words)

	Tufts Magazine Spring 2005
		One student who says Davis factored into her decision to come to Tufts is Laura Manoogian, J06, who takes the “Joey” down to the square once a week to hit a restaurant with friends.
		By the time she graduated, however, she was taking the subway to Harvard Square on the weekends, and frequenting new businesses like Redbones, the Cajun barbecue and hipster bar that opened in 1988 and is still thriving.
		He helped support the transformation of a warehouse not too far from Davis Square known as the Brickbottom Building into a community of 150 live-in/work studios, the largest colony of its kind in Massachusetts and one of the largest artist-developed spaces in the country.
	www.tufts.edu /alumni/magazine/spring2005/features/feature3.html (1978 words)

	NewburyOpen.net: Current and Past WiFi Projects
		For those of you that have never travelled to Davis Square, it's one of the coolest places to live and socialize in Boston.
		We went into Davis hoping to gather the help of either one major sponsor or a bunch of smaller sponsors to fund the initial investment in firewall, antenna, and high-speed line.
		In Davis, we had told their management that once the Davis Square initiative went through, they would have to pay even less, because the cost per location, once shared between all of the Davis merchants, could be as low as $25/month.
	www.newburyopen.net /projects_davis.html (946 words)

	Davis Square Martial Arts
		If you would like to register for a FREE martial arts class (we are locate in Davis Square, Somerville / Boston MA), or if you have any questions regarding our programs, please contact us by phone (617) 591-9656 or email us.
		Davis Square Martial arts is located on the Red Line T, with about a 1 minute walk to the school making it convenient to all of Boston.
		Davis Square is also convenient to Cambridge, Arlington and Medford...
	www.davissquaremartialarts.com (716 words)

	The Creightonian Online
		Davis Square is a three-story complex of two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom apartments.
		Though all of Davis’ apartments are similar in design, several come with extra additions such as bay windows, kitchen booths or lofted floors.
		Davis Square is one of the first parts of that plan to be completed.
	press.creighton.edu /090304/news3.html (485 words)

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		For years, Somerville was a working-class city known for mobsters such as the "Winter Hill Gang." But by 1997, the upscale, liberal Utne Reader was declaring West Somerville's Davis Square one of the 15 "hippest" neighborhoods in America.
		"It's no surprise that when the T was located there, Davis Square took off." The city hopes to replicate the formula of transit-fueled growth on the other side of the city, in both Assembly and Union squares.
		But because Porter Square already has a T stop, and the latter plan would require tunnelling underneath Prospect Hill, the proposals are less popular with the MBTA.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /~rauch/northpoint/greenline.html (772 words)

	Sensenbrenner and Davis bills square off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The difference is that Sensenbrenner’s bill, the Real ID Act, also includes provisions to tighten asylum abuse, close a fence along the Mexican border near San Diego and expand the grounds for deportation in terrorism-related cases.
		Davis wanted to introduce his own bill, Marin said, because he had originally introduced the driver’s-license language that was included in last year’s intelligence-reform bill and marked that language up in his committee.
		It was expected to receive one of the Speaker’s high-priority bill numbers and be voted on sometime next week, Lungren said.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020105/sensenbrenner.html (764 words)

	Davis Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McIntyre & Moore Booksellers is located at 255 Elm St. in Davis Square, Somerville, near the Red Line.
		The bank's president(?) was there, and got an earful from people in the room who complained that it does not belong in the Square, is too bright, doesn't fit the building well, and is irritating to the eye.
		Davis Square's annual ArtBeat festival will take place Friday evening and Saturday, July 14 and 15.
	community.livejournal.com /davis_square (1874 words)

	Fall 2000 Sprawl Report- Sprawl - Sierra Club
		But in the early 1980s, a long-awaited extension of the region's rapid-transit system gave Davis Square new life and contributed to a dramatic turnaround.
		Named for the public space at its center, Davis Square had not succumbed to any number of auto-centric solutions for revitalization and had remained a virtually intact neighborhood.
		Today, Davis Square has not only recovered economic and social vitality, but it has become a popular destination in its own right.
	www.sierraclub.org /sprawl/50statesurvey/massachusetts.asp (422 words)

	Spark Crafts ::: Davis Square, Somerville, MA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Combinations represent tonal concern, taking form in site-specific arrangements that create vibrational shifts; a room is made more vibrant or tranquil by groupings of simple shapes – often squares – in monochromatic arrays, with varied richness of surface.
		Some pieces play on order, when rotating sub-grids – whose arrays are defined by audience interaction – determine the pattern of the larger whole.
		Davis Square : 50 Grove Street, Somerville, MA 02144 : 617 718 9132
	www.sparkcrafts.com /community/featuredartists.shtml (316 words)

	Welcome to Housing Re-Contracting at Creighton University!
		Current Davis Square residents and Juniors/Seniors living in Kenefick and Heider, welcome to the 2006 Apartment Renewal Process.
		You currently reside in Davis, Kenefick, or Heider and wish to move to a different apartment in Davis or Opus.
		You and your roommates currently reside in Davis and wish to move to a different apartment in Davis or Opus housing the same number of residents.
	www.creighton.edu /ResidenceLife/Housing/ReContracting/ApartmentRenewal (746 words)

	Davis Square White Hen closes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Someone in the store told me they were moving to Ball Square, and that another 24-hour store would replace them in a month or two.
		North Cambridge is North Cambridge and Davis Sq, Somerville is Davis Sq, Somerville.
		I walked through Ball Square tonight, and there's a sign in the window of the former CVS store at Broadway and Lowden, announcing that a White Hen will open soon.
	www.wickedgood.info /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=69879 (1323 words)

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