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...while political squabbles come and go like fashion, buildings tend to last an awfully long time. Accordingly, Summers is equally (if not more) dogmatic when it comes to the science-centric Allston expansion, his pet project and real-life Sim City. In February 2004, this editorial page hit the nail on the head, charging that “the [Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students...
Neighborhood leaders and city politicians protested Harvard’s purchase of 91 acres of Allston land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority in June 2003. But Harvard’s latest foray into Boston did not provoke an outcry from residents, who said they had expected the purchase...
Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, said residents were concerned less with the change in ownership and more with the future use of the property...
Robert Van Meter, the executive director of the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation, said that the Doubletree purchase was symbolic of Harvard’s growing clout in Allston...
Last June, Harvard announced it had hired the planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson to create a master plan for the Allston campus, working with a team that will include architect Frank O. Gehry and incorporating the goals outlined in the community task force report. The campus will be centered around science, professional schools and undergraduate housing...