Marc Levy A block of Bow Street in Harvard Square will close to car traffic in the spring, Cambridge staff say.

One Harvard Square project got a win Monday in Cambridge, while another faced a setback.

In the spring, the Blue Bottle Coffee shop and two restaurants on Mount Auburn Street will have back patios to lounge in on a stretch of road closed permanently to pass-through car traffic, officials said. But a project to reuse an abandoned MBTA tunnel faces resistance in a bid to explore its reuse as an entertainment venue.

A block of Lower Bow Street, between Dewolfe and Plympton streets, was closed for at least two years of construction “without causing significant impacts on the safety or functionality of the surrounding traffic patterns,” transportation commissioner Brooke McKenna

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