Word: allston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Development in Cambridge has become verydifficult," says Sandra S. Coleman, administrativedean at HLS and a member of the physical planningcommittee. "Allston," she adds, "wants...
...example of insensitivity to the local community, which uses extensively the small park in the area the Center would be built. The University agreed to amend its plans for the Center in light of the bad blood unleashed by its secret purchase of acres of land in Allston two years...
Over the past year Harvard has been reshaping the image it presents to the outside world in an effort to foster better relations with the local community. This makeover comes in the wake of a year that saw such town-gown ruptures as the Allston land purchase, in which the University revealed it had secretly purchased more than 50 acres of land, and the proposed Knafel Center...
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...course, for all the wrangling over space in Cambridge, Harvard's newest purchases--more than 50 acres in the working-class Allston neighborhood--would seem to be likely candidates for cultural development, providing a convenient introductory peace offering to a community originally upset with the secretive nature of Harvard's purchases...