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Boutique Retail Spreads Throughout Boston

BOSTON-Boutique shops are moving into Boston's once blue-collar neighborhoods as gentrification continues to turn them into trendy residential areas.

By Beverly Ford | Updated on February 19, 2007

BOSTON-With retail rents moving toward the $160 per square foot mark along Newbury Street, boutique owners are shopping for storefronts in Boston’s rapidly gentrifying urban neighborhoods. The move is turning these once blue-collar boulevards into trendy upscale retail strips.

“There’s a big demand for space everywhere,” Annette Born, a specialist in boutique real estate with Urban/Born Associates in Boston, tells GlobeSt.com. “People want to be in Boston and if they’re in Boston, they want to be in other parts of Boston.”

From the once gritty South End to East Boston, areas that were long overlooked as trendy retail markets are now sprouting storefronts touting luxury goods and upscale services.

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