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...Knafel’s name was taken off Harvard’s planned Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) a year ago, even after he donated another $11 million, when University officials found that the project’s budget had more than tripled and realized they needed to raise millions more...
...initial plan for CGIS would have looked something like the Barker Center, which brought together Faculty in 12 humanities departments and consisted mainly of renovating the Harvard Union at a cost of $25 million...
Until about three years ago, when the original plan was scrapped, the price tag for CGIS was cited at $30 million. But from the very beginning, officials should have known the cost would be far greater, says David A. Zewinski ’76, associate dean of the Faculty for physical resources and planning...
...says that the initial estimate of the center’s cost—which had been the basis for naming CGIS after Sidney Knafel—was a vague “placeholder” approximation of how much the new building would cost...
...University unveiled a new plan. Coolidge Hall would be razed, along with another Harvard building across the street that houses University Information Systems. In their place, two major new buildings—connected by a costly tunnel under Cambridge Street—would form the heart of CGIS. Four historic houses nearby would be renovated for use as Harvard research centers, and one of them the University had to buy and would have to relocate several blocks away at a cost of about $1 million...