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Part one: Bringing Art To Allston Part two: A Community Endeavor Part three: Defining 'Allstoned'Brighton community about its plans for a new art museum that will be located in Barry??s Corner, right in the middle of what Harvard hopes will become the Harvard Square of Allston (see map below). The comment period, which ends this Friday, has sparked a lively debate about the museum’s location and function, and a number of locals have expressed doubts about Harvard’s intentions...
...museum will be the first Harvard building built at Barry??s Corner. The Allston Master Plan calls for the area—at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street, just past the Harvard stadium—to be the nexus of Harvard’s expanded campus and the surrounding area. Residents complain that, if Barry??s Corner is to become a commercial center, it is no place for an art museum...
...during construction. The meeting’s discussions, which took place at St. Anthony’s School in Allston, centered on the University’s plan to erect an art museum at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue—known to residents as Barry??s Corner. If the plan is approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority—the agency that oversees the city’s construction and renewal projects—construction could begin as early as this summer. But late last month, the Allston residents...
...Harvard, the potential for “Barry??s Corner”—the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue just beyond the edge of the Harvard Business School campus—to become a vibrant crossroads for a growing campus was clear. It could become a new hub of the long-established Allston neighborhood with amenities for the entire community. Within the broader context of the North Allston neighborhood planning process, the possibility was raised for the current Charlesview site to be transformed to a new cultural gateway that would welcome Allston...
...permanent museum has always been in Harvard’s plan for Barry??s Corner,” said Spiegelman, Allston’s chief planner. “Museums bring the most people to our campus and the plan has always slated for museums to be close to Barry??s Corner to bring more people to that intersection...