Word: neighborhooding
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...committee of Allston residents yesterday called on Harvard to provide benefits to the community, including new public parks and full scholarships to the College for neighborhood children, as the University embarks on the most ambitious campus expansion in its history...
...science complex slated to begin this fall, the benefits proposed by the Harvard-Allston Task Force—a group of 17 local residents appointed by the Boston mayor—will be incorporated into a legally binding document that outlines the benefits the University must provide to the neighborhood. The “cooperation agreement,” which does not have to be completed before Harvard begins construction in Allston, will be signed by the University and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...meeting in Allston last night, some residents questioned whether Harvard would live up to the promises it will eventually make. One resident cited discrepancies in the building heights proposed by the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Plan and those included in Harvard’s plans for its science complex—which will include the home of the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative—as an instance in which the University has not lived up to its word...
...Benefits are what we think we need from Harvard to survive as it expands into our neighborhood,” Ray Mellone, the chairman of the task force, said at the meeting...
...Palleroni and his student team will head back to New Orleans to begin work on the Katrina Furniture Project's first neighborhood workshop at the edge of the Ninth Ward, just six blocks from the faulty levees. For now the project is funded by universities and private foundations. But eventually, Palleroni hopes to create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher...