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Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museum (HUAM) James B. Cuno would like nothing more than to build a new University museum on the banks of the Charles River, at the current site of Mahoney's Garden Center...
...Faculty source says Cuno's idea has become "the plan to beat" in the secretive horse-race to develop one of the last large swaths of available land in Harvard's Cambridge home. In a twist, the contents of the Sackler Gallery could move to a second building on the site--creating a museum complex to rival HUAM's current Quincy Street...
...Cuno introduced the notion of a new museum to University President Neil L. Rudenstine several years ago, according to the Faculty source...
With this move, Harvard might be heading off potential opposition. Bad blood has been shed over the Fogg and the Sackler before, as Cuno acknowledged when he referred to the University's original proposal to link the Fogg and the Sackler with a bridge over Broadway at the time the Sackler was built. Because of bitter community opposition that plan was never completed...
...That bridge is alive and well in the memories of the neighbors," Cuno said. "It's still an open wound in the community...