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...medical institutions meanwhile went ahead with plans to secure Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approval for the MASCO power plant. MASCO needed this approval so it could take advantage of a state law that aids developers of "blighted" land in urban renewal area. This law allows the developer tax-exempt construction if it can prove to the BRA board that the land is blighted and will be benefitted by renewal. In return, the applicant has to pay some taxes to the city--a percentage of the project's income...
...founded the company, most recently in 1973. That was when Revlon introduced a new perfume under the improbable name "Charlie." Associates grimaced, competitors smiled, and Revson went on talking about how it was perfect for "the woman who is sort of liberated but who isn't a bra burner." Revson's semi-lib market turned out to be there all right-and enormously profitable too. In that first year, Charlie sales exceeded $10 million in the U.S., and today stores sell more Charlie than any other American fragrance...
...BRA gives MASCO a 121A designation then under Mass state law MASCO would be allowed to construct the power plant...
...beginning of the meeting. Robert Kenney director of the BRA, told the crowd of about 75 people gathered at the Mission Hill American Legion Post that a Chapter 121A hearing will be held on the power plant. August 26, at Boston State College...
...always we are left to fight our own battles. And let Harvard and the BRA make no mistake about it: fight we will Mission Hill has not only wised up to what's happening, but how it's happening; and this time we're going to win. And the first step in winning means no total energy plan; on Mission Hill