"Harvard has been around for 350 years," MarkGauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry atHarvard, said in September. "This modern art stuffis trendy--it's a '90s thing, and it's going to beout."
Chilinski called the negative reaction to thesign for Shops by Harvard Yard "rather notorious"but said it was "not entirely unusual."
"Signage is the hardest part in development andrenovation projects," Chilinski said.
The decision to move the sign was announced ata general retail tenants meeting on Mondaymorning, New said.
But not all tenants knew about it.
"I heard that people said the sign wasdangerous but I didn't know it was coming down,"said Terry Chan, owner of Time Zone.
Still, not everyone seemed upset about thedisappearance.
"I didn't even know it was gone," said SeanAlexander, owner of Sweet Stuff