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While negotiations progress in Agassiz, across town in the Riverside neighborhood, a prolonged, traditional town-gown battle over how Harvard uses its land will continue at least into next fall...
Harvard agrees to pay the City of Boston $40 million over 20 years in lieu of taxes, ending a two-year town-gown battle following the 1997 disclosure that the University had been secretly purchasing land in Allston...
...Cambridge City Council passes an order supporting a “living wage” of $10 per hour for all Harvard employees and threatens that town-gown relations may become strained unless the University acts soon. In May 1999, the council had mandated that all city employees of firms contracted by the city must be paid a wage of at least $10 per hour...
While Harvard has made inroads towards a good relationship with Menino and other area leaders, the battle over Harvard’s 91-acre purchase exposes major fault lines and old wounds in a still-touchy, ever-evolving town-gown bond...
...controversy over the 91-acre deal highlights fundamental disagreements between town and gown about the degree and ways that the Harvard should consult the city—disagreements that have remained unresolved since...