Word: parcel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land, known as Parcel 1b. formerly served as the site of MBTA carbarns and was once slated to house the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. But a coalition of neighborhood groups fearing increased congestion in the Square forced the library project out of Cambridge--and onto Boston's Columbia Point--after prolonged negotiations...
Resident's were also unhappy with the original plan for Parcel 1b presented in 1979 by Carpenter and Co. of Boston, which called for the construction of two massive office towers that one local activist compared to "two Holyoke Centers...
Construction on the University Place site, previously used as a parking lot, began last week. When the Parcel 1b work gets under way this summer, the Square will have temporarily lost a total of about 700 parking spaces...
Several other relatively small obstacles remain before Parcel 1b construction can begin Carpenter and Co. must still receive technical approval from state authorities and arrange minor street changes around the project to further decrease projected traffic congestion...
...planning to gather this weekend in Vienna to make a desperate gamble. They will try to shore up the price of crude on world markets by agreeing to set a production ceiling of 18.5 million bbl. per day, down from 19.2 million bbl. per day currently, and to parcel out the resulting cuts. That is something that the fiercely nationalistic members of the organization have never before managed to achieve. Many Western analysts, emboldened by strife-torn OPEC's recent setbacks, are predicting that the effort will fail, putting further pressure on prices, which have already slipped by about...