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...issue is developer Graham Gund's plan's to construct a six-story complex of retail shops and offices at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Arrow St. While members of Gund's staff have said they are merely trying to construct a structure that will mix well architecturally with the neighborhood, residents have said the complex threatens the character of the neighborhood. And they have charged that the city's Planning Board has no jurisdiction over the the project, called Zero Arrow Street...
Residents have also said that Planning Board Chair Paul Dietrich has a conflict of interest in the case because his architectural firm owns property near the site. That property might increase in value were Gund's project to be built...
...meet such worries, the hotel will hardly be an attractive, money-earning one. Harvard promises a "moderately priced" hotel to avoid further yuppification, a small one to dodge traffic and transiency problems, one with no public services in order to keep crowds away, and one with a Graham Gund-supplied designer label to keep architecture buffs quiet. First, who is a cheap hotel without a restaurant or view going to attract? Second, why should community residents, who complain that Harvard offers nothing to Cambridge at large, welcome a building that deliberately adds nothing ot the life of the Square, shutting...
Mariano, who worked the polls at the School of Design's Gund Hall in 1984, estimated that students turned out yesterday at the same levels as in the last presidential election. "There's been an incredible amount of student participation and enthusaism today," she said...
Other poll workers agreed. "We're breaking records today," said A. George Catavoll, a poll worker at Gund Hall. "There's a lot of interest in local, state and federal elections and the weather was good. We expect a turnout of up to 80 percent, which is fantastic," he said...