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Despite urgings from the most powerful officials in the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts to hold off on the sale, the members of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) voted yesterday to allow their head to accept Harvard’s $75 million bid for a 91-acre parcel of industrial land in Allston...
After the MTA board voted to approve the sale, Chair of the MTA Matthew J. Amorello said last night he intends to sign off on the deal, as soon as the mandatory 30-day waiting period expires...
...January, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino wrote a letter to MTA Chair Amorello, asking that no sale be made until the city had completed a review of the rail yard—known as Beacon Park—and its economic impact on the region...
...only discussions between Harvard and the MTA were informal talks about the possibility of long-term development of the land, which is now covered with railroads that have a permanent right-of-way, Hines said...
...MTA were selling the land, the sale would go through a formal bid process open to any interested buyers...