Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard officials order the destruction of the Gulf Station on Mass Ave., seeking to avert the legal hassles that would ensue if the building were allowed to reach 50 years of age. The decision 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. oppose Harvard Real Estate's proposal to build a five-story hotel on the land and from faculty members, who have already asked the University to consider using the site for library or office space...
...University announces that it paid between $3 and $7 million for the St. Paul's lot and unveils a plan to build 80 units of affiliated housing and a day care center on the land...
...years, Harvard has been the city's biggest landlord. This year it grew even bigger. A year ago, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) unveiled plans to build a five-story "limited convenience" hotel on property across from the Harvard Union. In the fall, the University purchased the Quality Motor Inn and the Bence Pharmacy building on Mass. Ave. And in March, Harvard purchased from the St. Paul's Rectory the largest undeveloped plot in the Square...
Such expansion has raised questions about the underlying aims of the University, its role in the community and the purpose of growth itself. Is Harvard primarily an academic institution or a real estate company? Many asked, "Why build a hotel?" Members of the faculty noted that the site could be better used as a library or a building to ease the faculty office crunch. Community activists screamed about insensitivity, charging that the University was destroying area neighborhoods...
...November, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes shocked the administration by opposing its plan to build a new hotel on the Mass. Ave. Gulf Station site. Landes pointed out that in light of the shortage of FAS library and office space, the site should be used for academic purposes...