Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from its extensive real estate portfolio, Cambridge's largest landlord got even larger by sinking at least $27.4 million into six major property acquisitions. Harvard also made a $4 million bid on yet another piece of property, the St. Paul's parking lot, and attempted to negotiate several local land acquisitions which later fell through...
...University bought that land "with professors in mind," says HRE's president. "Harvard has not done anything for faculty housing since it built the Botanic Gardens in 1949. So Harvard thought they ought to try and experiment...
...third component of consolidating Harvard's properties in the Square concerns the construction of small-scale, "in-fill" housing on minor plots of land already owned by the University. Six months ago, for instance, Harvard completed construction on three such townhouses on Gerry St.--a project which Zeckhauser says may become a model for others in the Square...
Something of a turning point came, however, when the University negotiated a deal to prevent a large Harvard Square developer from building two large towers along the banks of the Charles River on a tract of land known as Parcel 1B. Instead, Harvard purchased the land itself and built the University Place office building along with the adjacent University Green condominiums--both of which opened...
...This land and these people who are my ghosts, who loved their home and traditions, who felt profoundly comfortable in the heat of a stultifying Southern summer, these tug at me and tell me I must return to the South bearing gifts from Harvard, that I must give up my great love of the intensity and impatience of the North in order to regain a place in the South...