Word: project
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight months and a myriad of headaches later, the dining hall is open, waiting for the first hordes of hungry Quaddies. But it seems the saga hasn't quite ended. Though the administration figures a cost overrun of only about 2 per cent for the project, John B. Cruz Construction, the general contractor for the dining hall, is hurting. John B. Cruz, the owner-director of the company, says the project for Harvard has set his $3 million a year operation back a good two years. And theough he claims a portion of the responsibility, he says Harvard...
...says Harvard procrastinated in its approval of one of the subcontractors by quibbling over the price being asked. In the end, Cruz says, he was forced to seek out another subcontractor, a friend, who was willing to charge a reduced rate. Both the redesign and the procrastination delayed the project two months, he says, because the ceiling and other work on the interior couldn't progress...
...construction, operation and maintenance of the SoCal scrubber for 15 years, after which it becomes the utility's problem. If the deal survives other hurdles, including a November referendum in Long Beach on the city's proposal to lease space to Sohio for its terminal, work on the project could begin early next year. Even if it does, the pipeline will still not be ready to start pumping oil to those Texas refineries before...
...their original buildings-but only after a lengthy, civic tug of war and some shrewd, imaginative thinking about the inner city of Boston. Last week's opening of the North Market marked the completion of the third and final stage of a $30 million, 6.5-acre renovation project. With some 30,000 people visiting the area daily, the market is almost outdrawing Florida's Disney World. Says Terry Rankin, head of the Boston Society of Architects: "The danger was in the downtown area that there wasn't enough life and vitality among the high-rise buildings...
...city of Boston leased Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the Rouse Co. of Columbia, Md. Only after the planners agreed to stagger the opening of the buildings (Quincy Market opened in August 1976, the South Market in August 1977) did the banks agree to finance the project...