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Harvard Real Estate (HRE) last week opened a "tenant relocation" office in the Craigie Arms Apartment building on Mt. Auburn St.. angering tenant activists in the building who are trying to prevent University plans to empty the 65-unit building...
When Harvard Real Estate (HRE) decided to purchase and renovate an apartment building at 18-20 Ware Street, it encountered a costly problem: the size of the project seemed to mean that to comply with state law, HRE would be forced to install concrete wheelchair ramps and other equipment to make the building accessible to handicapped people...
Architect Stephen Tucker of Cambridge who received more than $10,000 from HRE for his work on 18-20 Ware Street and other buildings, spent some of his time trying to find a way around the law. And though HRE eventually installed the required modifications to the Ware Street apartments, Tucker's memo to HRE president Sally Zeckhauser and vice-president Robert Silverman provides a revealing look at one of the services tenants--as well as students and alumni--pay for as part of HRE's daily business operations...
...response to inquiries about the memo, HRE officials provided a written statement, which reads in part: "HRE's policy is to comply with applicable state and local codes. HRE has no comment on what Mr. Tucker may or may not have been proposing...for your information...after the work was done to provide access for the handicapped, HRE had considerable difficulty finding handicapped tenants to occupy the building...
...anything immoral. In fact we invested a good deal more money than was required in order to comply with the spirit of the law, not just the narrow technical requirements." Tucker said, explaining that "three nice handicapped apartments, a lift, a ramp, and other accoutrements" were provided by HRE...