Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University might devote half of the MTA yard property to commercial taxpaying construction if it acquires the area, City Manager John J. Curry '19, said yesterday...
...present the MTA pays no taxes on the large area, and Curry pointed out that as a result it has felt no pressure to sell land it no longer needs. He said that the public attention drawn to this situation by the University's announcement might influence the MTA trustees to give serious thought to selling the land...
Although it has intermittently discussed purchase of the property for several years, the University has never before revealed details of its negotiations, nor has it apparently ever before made such a firm offer. MTA officials will discuss the proposition at their meeting Monday and may announce a decision later that...
...believed that there are several other organizations besides the University which are also interested in buying the land and it is by no means certain that the University will be able to make the purchase. The Trustees of the MTA and other authorities will meet Monday morning, and some decision may be forth-coming at that time...
Should the MTA decide not to move from the Cambridge yards, it is believed that the University might still be interested in building on some sort of platform arrangement over the yards, which, although extremely expensive, might be preferable to expansion into some rather remote locale, such as beyond Dunster House...