Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real estate developer's plan to put seven or eight apartment houses and a civic-center-auditorium on a platform above the Charles River Basin met objection yesterday as a "grandiose scheme" to create a value for essentially worthless land...
...four hour hearing at the State House, the Joint Committee on Cities listened to public discussion on House bill 319, which would turn over to Cambridge zoning control about 40 acres of land under the waters of the basin. The property is controlled by the Metropolitan District Commission, but owned by John Briston Sullivan (right), a Cambridge realtor...
...merchants thought University construction on the land would bring more people, and therefore more business, to the Square, and would enhance the beauty of the area...
...Those MTA car barns are a tremendous waste of valuable land," said Robert I. Slate, owner of the Slate stationery store. But Stanley Davis, assistant manager at Hayes-Bickford's, was more reserved and predicted that "in the years to come, all Cambridge is going to be owned by Harvard and M.I.T...
...previous reports were not sufficient reason for speed, the legislators should also remember that the MTA's reserve on land in West Cambridge expires in 1961. Moreover, Massachusetts Ave. will be widened this summer, and co-ordinating this work with construction of the subway would permit sharing of expensive relocation of the public utilities which run under the road. Just a look at the present situation in Harvard Square should convince even the economy-minded that any opportunity should be seized...