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...University is still trying to buy the Cambridge MTA yards as the site for a badly needed Tenth House. But despite generous purchase prices and offers to use part of the land for taxable ventures, Massachusetts Hall has been unable to obtain State consent to buy the property...
...Brown bid $1 million for the 39-acre plot, at least $200,000 above its top value. (Harvard has offered $1 million dollars more than the market value of the MTA yards.) Keeney's statement said in part: "We are aware that many will regard the price paid by us as large, but we wished to pay a price which will give a clear indication of our appreciation of our long and pleasant relationship with the City of Providence." Mayor Walter H. Reynolds (a non-college graduate but now an honorary Brown alumnus) first said that he would "see what...
According to a reliable source, if the Commonwealth is successful in taking over the Old Colony, the University will have an excellent chance of obtaining the Bennett St. MTA yards across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses. Harvard has long wanted the site for construction of the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College...
...principal stumbling blocks in the MTA-University negotiations has been the Authority's alleged difficulty in finding a substitute for the Cambridge yards. Reportedly, passage of the Governor's bill will provide the MTA with an adequate replacement in certain Old Colony facilities...
Amalgamation of the Old Colony with the MTA is a major part of Governor Volpe's plan to revitalize the long-suffering Boston transit system. It is reported that inherent in Volpe's proposal is the hope that an efficient rapid transit to the South Shore communities will help to decrease the growing automobile traffic from that area to the vicinity of down-town Boston...