Word: neighborhood
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...This is all sort of legal mumbo-jumbo betraying the damage that Harvard has done to this neighborhood,” said Harry Mattison, an Allston Task Force Member. He added that the neighborhood has always been “sort of the stomping ground for non-desirable uses...
...Some neighborhood residents question the category’s legitimacy, calling it an attempt to disguise the true blight of vacancy in Allston...
...Even the 15 percent of “leasable” Harvard properties left vacant, though seemingly insignificant, “has a higher impact when seen in a smaller neighborhood context,” said Mike Glavin, deputy director for institutional development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the City’s chief planning agency...
...Corner to Finale Dessert Company, but residents have come to see the building—which contains no retail outlet and only houses the company’s central pastry kitchen—as an example of Harvard’s failure to deliver on promises to revitalize the neighborhood...
...Task Force Chair Ray Mellone agreed that Western Ave. is a “long way from becoming a main street or downtown business section” and suggested Harvard use its Business School faculty to identify and recruit businesses that would thrive in an academic neighborhood such as the one envisioned in Allston...