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...thing I was upset about was that there was no process the city was considered in,” Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. “Harvard just said ‘we’re going to buy it.’ But there’s been no consideration. It was just, ‘let’s get the land, get the deal done...
...Menino accused Harvard of waging “a full-scale attack” on the city, as well as displaying “the highest level of arrogance seen in our city in many years...
While Harvard has made inroads towards a good relationship with Menino and other area leaders, the battle over Harvard’s 91-acre purchase exposes major fault lines and old wounds in a still-touchy, ever-evolving town-gown bond...
...exemptions—even though its thirteen-year-old agreement for payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) with Harvard will remain in effect until 2010. In Boston this spring, after Harvard acquired 91 acres of land in Allston from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino also called on Harvard to increase its PILOT payments. Before its recent purchase, Harvard held nine times as much land in Boston as in Watertown yet paid less than half the PILOT payments negotiated with Watertown...
Except for a brief statement to the Boston Globe in April, Menino has been mostly tight-lipped in public about his concerns about the Allston land purchases...