Word: cra
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Last night, City Manager James L. Sullivan for the second time gave up an attempt to fill two vacancies on the agency, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). City Councillors had objected that neither set of nominees gave enough representation to those most affected by urban renewal-minority groups and residents of urban renewal areas...
...City Manager said he would ask a citizens' committee to meet with interested groups in order to set up guidelines for membership on the CRA. It was an appropriate time to take the action. Sullivan said, since CRA chairman Paul R. Corcoran had last week resigned for personal reasons...
...firm belief that the Redevelopment Authority is at the present time at a critical point in the determination of its future direction." Sullivan said, noting that the CRA was currently involved in four urban renewal projects with a potential investment of $500 million...
Probably the most critical decision the CRA currently faces is deciding what to do with the so-called "Thirteen GoldenAcres" -a tract of land in the Kendall Square Project. The original plans for the project-as approved by the City Council-called for using this land for commercial development complementary to the neighboring NASA center...
...cra before the bust) there were so few committees that either people knew what they were, or they didn't know and couldn't care less. James Q. Wilson knew what the Wilson Committee was, for instance. But as he complained to the CRIMSON in late March, just before the close of the EBB, no one else knew or cared. Not the Faculty or the students...