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...Massachusetts legislature may soon join the struggle to prevent the University from buying the Bennett St. MTA Yards...
...Lawrence F. Feloney of Cambridge will attempt to introduce a bill later this week giving Massachusetts cities and towas in which MTA property is located the "right of first refusal" over any land that the MTA wishes to sell...
Feloney's bill, which would amend the 1947 Act establishing the MTA as a State agency, requires that "the MTA trustees shall first offer to sell any real estate no longer needed for business affairs to the city or town where the property is located...
Leighton said that a large area "like part of the site of the present MTA Yards" would be ideal for Dudley. But he stressed that Claverly must serve as an interim solution and "the College must lose its fear of limiting itself to the resources of beds" before any major construction is possible...
...speech to the City Council on Monday, Hayes also urged that Cambridge follow the same procedure used by Boston in the new Prudential Center project, but redevelopment experts asserted yesterday that under this plan, Harvard (or some other developer) must first buy the Bennett St. property from the MTA...