Word: agassiz
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Residents of the Agassiz area, just north of the Yard, are facing development from all sides. Harvard Law School (HLS) and the science facilities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—both natives of the neighborhood—are each planning major new buildings to solve pressing short-term space crunches...
...rather than fighting the expansion, the Agassiz residents chose to negotiate, saying they know they can get some benefits from Harvard in return for their cooperation...
...Agassiz representatives are engaged in regular discussions with several Harvard officials, including Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, who pledged upon his arrival about a year and a half ago to establish more open communication with residents...
...city politicians praise the efforts of the University—which in the past was often criticized as haughty and aloof—to create goodwill in the Agassiz neighborhood...
...hope is that Dean [Drew Gilpin] Faust will give us more time to do construction, once we identify potential dance and theater sites, by giving us an additional year or two of the use of the Rieman and Agassiz [theaters],” he says...