Club Monaco hopes to open in a few weeks, said Eileen Parker, property manager for C.B. Richard Ellis.
As for Express, the company's main concern in moving, Savin said, was allegiance to its customers.
"We would never want to abandon our customers," Savin said, "But we were pretty sure they will still have a lot of opportunities to shop at Express."
In fact, Savin said, of Express's 700 stores, 14 are in the Boston area. Harvard undergraduates can shop at Express in the Cambridgeside Galleria, on Newbury Street, and at two other locations in Boston.
But students who had grown to rely on Express as a staple for cute, inexpensive clothes are disappointed.
"There aren't that many women's clothing stores around that you can afford," said Sujean S. Lee '03, a self-proclaimed frequenter of Express.
"I went maybe five times last year, but when I went, I bought a lot," she said. "It was just so easy to go in there when you're bored and feel like procrastinating."
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