Word: evict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saga of 7 Summer Rd. began 30 months ago, when the Graduate School of Design decided it wanted to use the four-story brick apartment building for office space. Offices were incompatible with bedrooms and kitchens, and so eviction proceedings began. The first few rulings on the hotly contested case went against the University, which had tried to remove some tenants with valid leases. But Harvard kept up the fight, despite the protests of local leaders that the building represented 16 moderately priced units of increasingly scarce rental housing. The Summer Rd. site was soon the focus of city-University...
Harvard's relations with the city remained sour through most of the year; the University drew fire when it finally won its battle to evict tenants from a Sumner Rd. apartment building and received widespread criticism for failing to increase its voluntary payments to the city to help compensate for 2 1/2. The only applause Harvard has won from Cambridge is for its work with neighbors in planning the development of a parcel of land on Mt. Auburn St., cooperation that may become increasingly commonplace with the passage of a tough new law that will allow Cambridge to regulate University...
Judge John J. Nixon decided in favor of the landlords, Limestone Realty Trust, who have sought to evict the bookstore since November...
Harvard's fight to evict tenants from an apartment building at 7 Sumner Rd. is finally drawing to a close, but a number of other University projects that touch on Cambridge are far from over--and some have been running battles for much longer than the two-year old Sumner Rd. affair...
Harvard officials yesterday asked the city for permission to evict the two tenants still living at 7 Sumner Rd., an apartment building the University has slated for conversion to office space for the Graduate School of Design...