Word: cgis
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Harvard’s request to build a tunnel under Cambridge Street has created an unusual confrontation between the city of Cambridge and the University. Since a City Council hearing on April 3, the proposal to link the two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) has been stalled by a council vote for further study and negotiations with neighbors. The outcome of this impasse is very much in doubt...
...resolution will not only affect the CGIS project but will also have implications for future relations between Harvard and Cambridge...
...research has dramatically weakened its ties with Cambridge. Its scholars are increasingly eminent, but the demands of the national and global stage draw them further and further out of touch with their sometime neighbors in Cambridge. This became painfully obvious in some of the public discussions about the CGIS project...
Several city boards have already signed off on plans for CGIS with the tunnel...
After the meeting Harvard officials said they had expected the council would not let the tunnel go forward last night. An easement to dig the tunnel remains the final hurdle before construction on CGIS can get underway...