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...organization opposes construction plans for several buildings in the Square area, including the Harvard-owned Gulf station and the Harvard Motor Inn, which Harvard has leased to a developer who plans to replace...
Landes' criticism is not only valid, but eye-opening. Until now, opposition to the hotel plan, which would replace the Harvard Motor House, has centered around whether it is appropriate for the University to involve itself with a purely profit-making scheme. Landes points out something which has been overlooked, which is that the hotel would be built at the expense of academic concerns...
Harvard is not proud of its current hotel, Harvard Motor House, located on Eliot Street, and wants to use the recently acquired Gulf station property to build a more attractive, 150-200 room, medium-priced hotel. There are precedents for universities owning hotels--they can be a good source of revenue and a convenient place for visiting parents to stay. If Harvard were simply trading one hotel for another, there would not be much concern...
...problem is that Harvard wants to use the Eliot St. property (where the Harvard Motor House is now located) to build a commercial office building. The project would be turned over to an outside developer and would not, at this point, house any University administrative or academic offices--it would be a purely profit-making venture for the school. It seems that it would not be as profitable for the University to build its hotel on that space; the Gulf station property on Mass. Ave. would not be as lucrative for offices, but a hotel would do well there...
Today some 35,000 shoppers a week descend on about 125 outlets in town to get the real stuff. Young couples from Manhattan take an hour's drive on Saturdays to stock up on Fieldcrest sheets; Philadelphia Main Liners trek some 40 miles for Harve Benard outfits. Suburban moms motor in for the kids' Nike running shoes, and senior citizens on bus tours from as far away as central Pennsylvania buy Carter's clothing for grandchildren. Even given the discounts, Flemington merchants grossed about $100 million last year, and they expect to do better this year...