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...plus the sewer gases and styrene that Harvard’s construction has released in our neighborhood this summer, can sometimes cause us to lose some sleep. Our most immediate concern, though, is a large real estate project Harvard set in motion but now disavows: the relocation of the Charlesview Apartments...
...These 213 low-income units currently stand next to Harvard’s soccer field, squarely in the middle of its new Allston campus. Last year Harvard secretly acquired the Charlesview land in exchange for land and financing to rebuild the complex a quarter-mile down Western Ave. Though the deal was made with the Charlesview’s board, without tenant representation to speak of, and with no notice to or consultation with the surrounding community, it could do some real good: The present Charlesview structures are dilapidated, and its enclave-like design isolates it from the rest...
...What worries us neighbors, though, is that the terms Harvard negotiated with Charlesview’s board do not allow this relocation to work properly for our community and the residents of Charlesview. The 6.5 acres Harvard made available from its much larger holdings along Western Ave. (well outside of the campus expansion) are inadequate, and forced the developer to propose an economically segregated plan, with low-income tenants clustered on one side of Western Ave., while luxury condos rise to ten stories above the river on the other side. This division by income, a model long abandoned by policy...
...want to welcome this project as part of a fully integrated, mixed-income community—the model for housing development that has proved successful time and time again. To that end, our Neighbors Forum, working with a veteran planner, has produced its own framework for developing the Charlesview relocation site, and we are calling on President Faust to join with us to implement this alternative...
...Whelan cited Harvard’s hands-off approach to rebuilding Charlesview as an example of this lack of concern for Allston residents...