Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strip From MTA Yard...
...University disclosed last night one of several suggested plans of development for the MTA Yards property, which it has publicly offered to purchase at a premium of $1 million above current market value...
...sketch is among a number of preliminary studies, all of which follow the outline of plans which University officials discussed with the MTA "some time...
Certain features of the sample study, such as the division of the Charles River frontage, seem to indicate the University's desire to "find a balance between educational uses and the creation of business and commercial properties" on the MTA site...
Since the University has bid for the property where the MTA yards are now located, speculation about the form of the next House-to-be has probably begun. The urbane stateliness of the present Houses is regretably too costly for the College to duplicate; thus with the realization that the break with tradition has now been irrevocably made, some Housing suggestions for the new era are offered in the spirit of modernism...