Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who accompanied Kennedy, says the president clearly preferred the 12-acre site, but thought that it might cost too much. And when University officials told the president that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which had used the site for more than half a century for its repair and storage yards--wasn't about to give up the land, Kennedy changed his mind. He settled for a site almost directly across the Charles from Winthrop House, where he had lived as an undergraduate...
...Government eventually incorporated--was aimed at linking the pragmatic world of the politician with the sheltered world of the academic. But if the library/museum was to be adjacent ot the Institute, as planners insisted, the site across the river was just too small. Officials realized that only the MBTA property was large enough to house the complex. Several discussions and millions of dollars later, the Commonwealth had purchased the land from the transit authority--and donated it to the federal government in President Kennedy's honor...
...worldwide. The corporation, moreover, had selected a rising young New York architect by the name of I. M. Pei to design the building. The Cambridge City Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody was selling. Almost a dozen neighborhoods rejected the agency's proposals, refusing to change local zoning laws. As each neighborhood turned the MBTA down, frustration levels rose, Crane says. By 1970, however, rounds of negotiations with Boston officials proved...
...MBTA is also hiring artists to paint murals as well as planning a series of "environmental artworks" such as ice sculpture, to decorate subway areas and "alleviate some of the tensions of the contructions," Jennifer A. Dowley, director of the beautification program, said yesterday...
...program, called "Arts on the Line," is sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council and MBTA, but much of the support for the project comes from volunteers. Sheldon Cohen, the owner of Out of Town News, donates his roof for the concerts, and the Harvard Coop stores the sound equipment from week to week...