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Recent developments: After two unsuccessful proposals, last month Harvard offered Charlesview a 6.5-acre site further up Western Avenue currently occupied by the Brighton Mills Shopping Center (left circle on map). The Board found the offer suitable and has begun to pursue a swap. Some residents, however, remain unhappy and have protested the proposed move...
...Doors open at 8 p.m. Harpers Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave. Tickets $5 at http://www.harpersferryboston.com...
...complex, a low-income housing development overlooking Harvard’s Allston athletic facilities at the corner of North Harvard St. and Western Ave. In return, Harvard will rebuild the apartments on a plot of land it owns further west along Western Ave., at the current site of the Brighton Mills Shopping Center. While development could progress on Harvard’s existing Allston holdings without this land swap, we believe that any future campus across the river with a five-acre lacuna at its heart would ultimately be second-best. This triangular plot is crucial to Harvard?...
...most recent proposal, which came out in March of this year, offered five acres of land on the same site mentioned in yesterday’s vote, which contains the Brighton Mills Shopping Center. However, there was little movement from the board until Harvard recently upped its offer to 6.5 acres...
Sanchez isn’t alone in her frustration with the Board’s committee, according to Robert Van Meter, executive director of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation...