Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...December, the Agassiz neighborhood north of Harvard Yard overwhelmingly approved a separate agreement with Harvard, which will allow the University to construct 1.6 million square feet of space over the next 25 years...
...Agassiz deal gives Harvard the assurance that it will be able to proceed with its expansion of Harvard Law School and the science departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In return, it offers the community a limit on the University’s development in the area, as well as a multimillion-dollar package of benefits ranging from funds for after-school programs to landscaping to traffic improvement measures...
...contrast to the grueling last-minute negotiations in Riverside—where the two sides came together on the last possible day for the city council to act on the neighborhood’s zoning petition—the progress on the agreement in Agassiz was steady over the course of a whole year...
...there is less bad blood between the University and the residents in Agassiz, where community members opted to enter into negotiations from the start, rather than taking Riverside’s more contentious route...
...Traditionally Harvard is the enemy,” says William Bloomstein, one of the four representatives of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID) who negotiated the deal with Harvard. “Rather than that approach, we decided to engage Harvard in a collaborative discussion, to understand and to figure out where there were mutual interests that could...