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...University has been looking for a new building to house the day care center for more than a year. Last spring the search touched off a controversy when workers measured the dimensions of rooms in the building at 58 Garfield St. without notifying tenants...
Then consider the day that a tenant at 58 Garfield St., in a Harvard-owned building, awoke to find her apartment filled with "visitors" from Harvard's child day care center. They inspected the paint chips for lead poisoning, the closets for possible reconstruction, and informed her that her home might be converted to a day care center. She first thought their pronouncement was an unfounded rumor, until Harvard phoned to apologize for the oversight in the lack of notice, and verified the news...
...find the space. Adding to the problem's complexity is the fact that while the University manages the graduate student housing, the Hunneman Real Estate Co. maintains and markets the University's 100 open housing apartment buildings. These are rented by non-Harvard people, like the tenants at 58 Garfield St. But the biggest problem Wyatt sees is that no one University official seems to know just who owns which pieces of property, who is in charge of maintenance, or which types of residents inhabit which buildings...
...deal directly with the community, via a special community relations officer, is still under discussion, Wyatt says. Michael Brewer, director of government relations, expects that his office will continue to field the complaints and community concerns, as it has done over the years. Brewer handled the oversight at 58 Garfield St., and says that similar incidents have occurred in the past, and in all likelihood will occur on occasion again in the future...
...that the Harvard Real Estate Corporation is primarily concerned with cleaning up the financial side of Harvard's real estate business. The accounting office should be established by July 1, and after the dust settle, perhaps other motives for forming the corporation will become clearer.The Harvard property at 58 Garfield...