Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's delay in deciding on a new use for the Gulf station site has already proved costly. On June 5, the City Council passed zoning change that cut by nearly 40,000 square feet the size of any new construction on the site...
Early in December Harvard's announced plan to build a 200-room hotel on the Gulf station lot came under bitter attack from the members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who wanted an academic building on the site. After the faculty unanimously called on Harvard to "reconsider" the hotel plan Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence appointed a three -member committee to look into alternate uses, and the hotel project was temporarily suspended...
...what the site will be used for now no one knows except Spence. It could be a hotel. It could be a library. It could be an office building. Just don't get too attached to those two 'Gulf' sings...
...November, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes shocked the administration by opposing its plan to build a new hotel on the Mass. Ave. Gulf Station site. Landes pointed out that in light of the shortage of FAS library and office space, the site should be used for academic purposes...
...this University and its constant search for economic gain. Bok later agreed to consult FAS on future real estate plans, and it was decided last month--after Cambridge citizens complained that the University demolished the station before it could be declared a landmark--that FAS would control the former Gulf Station site...