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Across the street, Graham Gund developers areplanning to build a small shopping complex,comparable to the Galeria on JFK St., for theproperty at 17-19 Mt. Auburn St. and 4-6 Arrow St.The real estate firm hopes to build a five-story,through-block arcade with four or five stores onthe ground floor and office space in the upperlevels...
...effort to keep the neighborhood the waythey want it, area residents formed the BankStreet Neighborhood Association last year inresponse to Harvard's proposal to build anotherdormitory at 10 Mt. Auburn St. The group managedto stall Harvard's plans to demolish a 92-year-oldhotel at the site and eventually convinced theUniversity to incorporate the turreted structureinto its overall project...
Last week's turmoil added to the uncertainty that has been plaguing the muncipal-bond market for months. In December the House passed a tax-reform bill that would place a 25% minimum tax on certain munis, including bonds to build stadiums and industrial parks. Investors and municipalities that depend on bond issues will not know where they stand until tax reform finally passes Congress or dies...
...kickbacks to the Marcoses from U.S. and Japanese companies doing business in the Philippines. One note refers to "amounts received" from five Japanese companies totaling more than $1 million. Others showed that Westinghouse Electric Corp. paid $11.2 million from 1976 to 1982 to obtain a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant. The company last week reiterated that it had actually paid a grand total of $17 million over a ten-year period to Marcos Crony Herminio Disini, head of a now defunct construction conglomerate, to help cement the deal. Westinghouse insists the payments were legal...
...Aquino government last week obtained a temporary restraining order in the New York State Supreme Court barring the transfer or sale of the buildings until March 19. There were allegations that Marcos had claim to vast holdings in Tarrant County, Texas, and San Diego County, Calif. And late last week Filipino bankers, lawyers and government officials charged that Marcos had received the better part of an $80 million payment in 1976 from Westinghouse Electric in connection with a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant...