Word: owner
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...host of often conflicting interests is involved. For the property's owner and developer, the case has meant three years worth of frustrating attempts to conform to city regulations in the hope of putting up a $2 million condominium complex. Nearby residents have complained of yet another construction project in the lucrative North Cambridge market and decried the near-total demolition of a local landmark. The city building inspector has condemned the facade as unsafe because it does not meet the wind pressure tolerance mandated by the building code. And at least three city councilors are concerned that the developer...
Between the two meetings, attorneys for each side spent hours negotiating. The owner, Stephen A. Bell, and developer, Conal C. Doyle '66, wanted a solution which would speed construction of the condominiums. Douglas A. Randall, attorney for the Rent Control Board, the building inspector and the Historical Commission, wanted to save face for his clients and do what was best for the city as a whole. The contradiction in goals was too much; the commission upheld its earlier decision, and the facade faces almost certain demolition today...
...vestige of the days when expansive single-family dwellings stood along the exclusive stretch of Massachusetts Avenue--known then simply as North Avenue--the house fell into disrepair in the mid-1900's. Before its owner applied for a demolition permit (requiring removal from rent control) in January of 1981, the structure was home for five low-and moderate income tenants...
This shoe supermarket is the creation of Harry Jubelirer, 65. He and his father, a shoe-store owner, went into business together in Homestead, Pa., after World War II. The younger Jubelirer was so laced up in the shoe business that he and his wife Natalie spent their honeymoon in Puerto Rico visiting shoe stores. In January 1954, the father and son bought Reyers, which had operated profitably in Sharon since 1885. Jubelirer bought more fashionable shoes and later quadrupled floor space, a risky move because Sharon's downtown was already on the verge of decline. "I was scared...
Called Taxigrams, the traveling commercials are the creation of Donald Chipman, a former owner of two taxi fleets...