Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Passage of the Furcolo bill would have given the MTA a good Old Colony substitute near Codman Sq. for the extensive Bennett St. maintenance and storage facilities. Lack of such alternate facilities had proven a major stumbling block in previous negotiations between the University and the MTA trustees...
Action in the state Senate yesterday effectively dampened the University's hopes of purchasing the Bennett St. MTA yards for the construction of a tenth House...
Against this legislative backdrop, MTA general manager Thomas J. McLernon said yesterday that he has held talks about Bennett St. for several weeks with L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President. But neither McLernon nor a spokesman for the Administration would comment on the progress of the negotiations, the first since...
...expensive high-rise design results from the land cost of eight dollars a square foot, almost twice what Harvard has offered for the Bennett St. MTA yards. Projected but highly indefinite rentals are $120-$140 for most of the apartments...
...style of architecture, however revolutionary, could be worse than MTA yards, Finley said, but he expressed preference for "a cross between Eliot and Quincy." He objected to the trend toward skyscrapers on the grounds that exceptionally tall buildings inevitably create an impersonal atmosphere...