Word: mattison
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...Harvard] needs to start thinking creatively,” Mattison said. “Something has to jump-start this, some sort of stimulus...
...Harry Mattison, an Allston resident and founding member of the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum, echoed his long-standing concerns about Harvard’s vacant property holdings in the neighborhood, and lamented that Barry’s Corner—the intersection of North Harvard St. and Western Ave, envisioned as a center of commerce akin to Cambridge’s Harvard Square—is still largely defined by an abandoned Harvard-owned Citgo Station...
...This is all sort of legal mumbo-jumbo betraying the damage that Harvard has done to this neighborhood,” said Harry Mattison, an Allston Task Force Member. He added that the neighborhood has always been “sort of the stomping ground for non-desirable uses...
...It’s where the recycling trucks are parked, where the shuttle buses are parked—the kind of things you want to keep but don’t want to look at,” said Task Force member Mattison...
Task force member Harry Mattison criticized Harvard for failing to pursue tenants that fulfill a vision of attracting businesses and revitalizing the neighborhood. He noted that last summer, the University leased one of its buildings just off of Western Ave. to Finale Dessert Company—for use not as an eatery, but as a central pastry kitchen...