Word: agreement
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Last Friday, the MBTA announced an agreement to buy the land from the Penn Central Railroad for $7 million...
Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Penn-Central Railroad yesterday signed an agreement which will enable the MBTA to vacate its Bennett-Eliot car barns-the site of the library complex. The 12-acre site lies across Boylston St, from Eliot House...
Under the agreement, the MBTA will pay the Penn Central $7 million for a tract of land near South Station in Boston, and will relocate the car barns there...
...certainly very good news," Pei said of the agreement, which ends years of frustrating attempts to relocate the car barns. The attempts began even before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave the Bennett-Eliot site to the library trustees in January of 1966, with the condition that the MBTA find a new site for its car barns before any work begins on the library construction...
...MBTA successively tried to relocate the barns to sites in Dorchester, Mattapan, and South Braintree, but residents of each community-feeling that the barns would be a nuisance-blocked the attempts through legislative action or in the courts. The negotiations which resulted in yesterday's agreement began last spring...