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Just one mile away from Harvard and Kendall Sq., where brains and biotech fuel economic growth, there is a neighborhood that is brimming with all the right ingredients - an eclectic mix of locally-owned businesses, neighborhood restaurants, an award-winning artisanal donut shop, coffee bars, a coworking space complete with a craft brewery and residents who annually turn their porches into performance spaces.

It’s January 17, 1963 and the three journal partners are struggling late at night on the sixth floor of a $2 per s/f office building overlooking Copley Sq. in Boston. None of them know anything about publishing, selling adds, interviewing, but this 12-page tabloid was to be the first of a weekly commercial real estate tabloid newspaper.