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...software giant has threatened to move its headquarters from its current Kendall Square site to North Reading, Mass. The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) has offered to alter zoning requirements and ease the tax burden for Lotus to make Cambridge a more hospitable host...
...council's subcommittee on ordinances approved several CRA proposals Wednesday night, said CRA Executive Director Joseph F. Tulimieri...
...behind a banner proclaiming JESUS LOVES DEMOCRACY. Government employees brandished a MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS sign, while retired military men proudly unfurled a banner reading ASSOCIATION OF FORMER COMMANDERS AND OLD COMRADES. From self-identified housewives to state factory workers and students, all were there to demand "Dee-mah-cra...
...Many of its handsomely scaled old masonry buildings were renovated: derelict art moderne office buildings became cool art moderne apartment buildings, and the art deco stock exchange was reborn as an art deco disco. There were more than two dozen major restorations in all -- including what had been the CRA's office building. The CRA, as it happened, had helped foster this revival. So in 1980 back came the urban-planning bureaucrats to their original building, back this time as historic preservationists, back to the very downtown district they had abandoned a generation earlier...
...about $1 billion. The law said that 1.5% of the construction costs of new buildings had to be spent on fine-arts embellishments. Such a percentage of a billion might build a whole museum -- just. (In the end the cost of the new museum was $23 million.) So the CRA made the construction of a free museum incumbent on any developer who submitted a proposal. The city of Los Angeles gave the land, and the developer the building; total operating responsibility was reserved to MOCA. After 1983, while the Bunker Hill site was in construction, MOCA began its operations...