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...week later, the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved after much debate a plan to relocate the Charlesview Apartment complex—a concrete cluster of 213 low-income housing units located near the Business School—into the heart of North Allston as part of a land swap agreement between Harvard and the Charlesview Board of Directors. The plan, which received approval from Boston’s Zoning Commission last week, has long been the subject of impassioned community discussions and has endured heated criticism from some neighborhood residents...
...TOUGH MONTH FOR ALLSTON...
...early December, Faust sent a letter to the Harvard community stating that the University would halt construction of the Allston Science Complex, which for years has been touted as a hub for interdisciplinary research and a cornerstone of Harvard’s future campus across the river. The decision, Faust wrote, resulted from the “altered financial landscape of the University, and the wider world...
...news did not come without warning: Harvard announced last February that it would slow construction in Allston while it examined alternative options for phasing and development. But while residents said that they were not shocked by the news of the construction freeze, they were certainly not pleased...
...surprise because [Faust] had been preparing us for it over the last year, so it was a formalization of that, and I think we all knew it,” said longtime Allston resident Tim McHale. “My overall reaction is that I feel sorry that it can’t move forward both for Harvard and for the community...