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...monument to Camelot--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already, a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...
...time graduating seniors return for their fifth reunion, at least two highrise buildings will tower over the Square. Over a million tourists a year will be visiting the Kennedy Library on the 11-acre MBTA site across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Streets will have been rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will have fled before an onslaught of hotels, tourist shops, and hamburger stands. Parking facilities will be swamped, and construction of an MBTA Redline extension, out to the Fresh Pond shopping center, will be underway...
Changes have been expected ever since the trustees of the Kennedy Corporation--the group overseeing construction of the Center--announced their plan in the mid-sixties to move the Library onto the MBTA site. A year ago, the Cambridge Planning Office began assembling a seven-volume master plan to cope with the difficulties expected to arise...
Harvard University Concert Band will present a concert. Hatch Memorial Concert Shell on the banks of the Charles (at the MBTA station). 2, May 7. Free...
Mechanical problems, moreover, might defeat a high-rise building from the start--Bowyer points out that building on the marshy MBTA site is little different than building in the Charles River...