Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time that Crane removed land from the low cost housing market. In a rare move for a university, MIT's Chairman James Killian complied with a Crane request that he help develop Technology Square, now the fourth largest property taxpayer in the city, but partly built on land where low-cost housing was before...
...wanted high-rise condominiums erected on his land and to get permission to build them he needed not just down-zoning, but a whole new zoning charter. Wasserman applied for and was granted the unprecedented changes by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 that Crane pushed Wasserman's projects so vigorously that he "forced out a member of the planning board that opposed a Wasserman zoning request." The Phoenix went on to show that Crane got some patronage in return--some of his building associates cashed in when Wasserman built his luxury housing...
...also Killian who engineered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deal with Crane that was supposed to bring in $60 million worth of space facilities into a now vacant Kendall Square site. The federal government dropped the proposal...
...even as Crane was working out the Kendall Square deal with Killian and NASA in the early sixties, there were rumblings from within the City Council--rumblings that Crane for the most part failed to detect...
Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29--who had been in partnership with Crane even when Crane threw John Atkinson out of the city manager post and replaced him with a hand-picked selection, John J. Curry '19--was assembling a coalition of Cambridge Civic Association reformers and independents who were getting weary of Crane's one-man rule...