Word: agassiz
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...effort to move beyond the traditional town-gown battles over University expansion, members of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID) have been meeting with Harvard officials since last year to discuss concrete benefits the neighborhood will receive in exchange for its support of large-scale Harvard construction projects...
...Agassiz area just north of Harvard Yard is home to Harvard Law School and the science departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which are both short on space and looking to expand...
Looking to the future, the deal calls for the formation of a standing committee of Agassiz and Harvard representatives to make sure the agreement is enforced and establish ongoing communication between the University and the neighborhood residents...
...last night’s meeting of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council, the negotiating team presented an outline of the proposed deal, in which Harvard will construct 1.6 million square feet of new buildings in the area, while providing the neighborhood with a long-term guarantee that no additional development is planned for the next 25 years...
...We’re trying to do something that Harvard and Agassiz haven’t done before,” said Mary H. Power, Harvard’s senior director of community relations. “I think that’s why it’s taking a lot of time...