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Founded in 1872 on the bequest of a New Bedford merchant, John Arnold, the arboretum comprises 265 acres of land in Jamaica Plain, near the Forest Hills MBTA Station. A major center for world plant study, it contains over 6,500 living species of woody trees, shrubs and vines...
Under Hayes' proposal, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority would buy the Yards from the MBTA with federal renewal funds. The Authority would then resell the area to the developer who could assure the "highest and best use" of the land...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., who chaired a special committee which met with the MBTA in December, said the authority was "very interested" in the urban renewal idea...
Pusey also said that plans for the Institute might be drawn up "not more than a year from now," and that he would be "delighted" to see the Institute--and the rest of the Kennedy Library complex--located on the Bennett St. MBTA Yard site...
Because the Library will contain a memorial to the President, and because it will contain the Institute as well, it will probably be somewhat larger than Kennedy envisioned. The Kennedy family and Ieoh Ming Pei, the architect who will design the library, are known to prefer the MBTA Yard site, which is three times as large as the Business School location...