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No Bon Pain on Mass. Ave.

Mark Corsillo reports the Au Bon Pain on Mass. Ave., across from the Christian Science Center, is now an ex-Au Bon Pain.

Closed Au Bon PainPhoto by Mark Corsillo.

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"closed for good"...whose good? Perhaps it was for the benefit of the customers who stopped eating there.

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That whole Church Park building is poorly designed for commercial tenants. The storefronts are set back far from the street, under a concrete overhang, and you can barely see their signs from the very wide sidewalk, let alone from the street itself.

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That Economy Hardware has done well there. And the CVS.

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which just expanded. Yeah, that place is an absolute mess. It's amazing any business gets done with all that business going on.

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The commercial tenants seem to be doing just well and customers like myself love that concrete overhang once the winter sets in. February at the H&R Block is usually pretty pleasant as a result.

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I used to go to this ABP instead of the one in the pru...darn. Always seemed pretty busy. That's too bad.

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When I moved here in 1993 I thought Au Bon Pain was the best thing, ever. But then I discovered all the other cafes.

I hate to see a local company lose a store, but it's kind of surprising to me that they're still hanging on with sub-par coffee and overpriced, underwhelming food options.

They need a refresh.

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Earlier this year they closed and totally redid the Harvard Square store. I don't know if they plan similar remakes for other locations. Although the Harvard Square cafe is still very popular, I have the general impression that Panera has outpaced Au Bon Pain.

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Au Bon Pain/ABP was tag teamed by the proliferation of entree replacement venues in the area.

The opening of Panera at Huntington and Gainsborough took a chunk of the ABP market which had already been diminished by the diversity of the Boston Market.

Mass. Ave. Pita proved to be the final blow to ABP.

The Church Park retail strip is very healthy.

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Mass Ave Pita is no competition to anyone. It's a try it once and go someplace else next time kind of spot.

If anyplace could have closed ABP Whole Foods would have driven them out ages ago.

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