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Harry Mattison, an Allston resident and founding member of the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum, echoed his long-standing concerns about Harvard’s vacant property holdings in the neighborhood, and lamented that Barry??s Corner—the intersection of North Harvard St. and Western Ave, envisioned as a center of commerce akin to Cambridge’s Harvard Square—is still largely defined by an abandoned Harvard-owned Citgo Station...
...Krieger says the University’s vision for Barry??s Corner—heralded by planners as a future hub in Allston akin to Harvard Square—may be restricted by existing competition from nearby lively streets, such as Harvard Street and Mass...
...Currently, Barry??s Corner features only a small convenience shop, a gas station, a Dunkin Donuts, and a vacant former Citgo station owned by Harvard...
...Fifty years from now, [Barry??s Corner] will be just as important as Harvard Square is,” Peiser said. “It takes a long time for a project like that to happen and mature...
...added that Harvard’s 2007 purchase of the Citgo station in Barry??s Corner, which is now an “empty, abandoned gas station,” was a “monument to Harvard’s damaging real estate practices...