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...scale of these developments, plus the sewer gases and styrene that Harvard’s construction has released in our neighborhood this summer, can sometimes cause us to lose some sleep. Our most immediate concern, though, is a large real estate project Harvard set in motion but now disavows: the relocation of the Charlesview Apartments...
...While many communities would shun the development of hundreds of units of affordable housing, we want to welcome this project as part of a fully integrated, mixed-income community—the model for housing development that has proved successful time and time again. To that end, our Neighbors Forum, working with a veteran planner, has produced its own framework for developing the Charlesview relocation site, and we are calling on President Faust to join with us to implement this alternative...
...first, Harvard must rejoin the discussion. The secretive and stand-alone style the University has preferred over the years has produced a lamentable history of failed community relations in Cambridge, Boston, and elsewhere. By turning its back on the Charlesview project it has privately engineered, Harvard risks another iteration of that sad pattern. We ask President Faust and all our Harvard neighbors not to let this happen. Let’s reopen the conversation on Charlesview, and this time take a larger view of how this relocation could benefit us all. Let’s work together to design...
...Sciences announced it would seek to reduce its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. A few months earlier, Harvard entered into a binding agreement with Massachusetts to keep future carbon emissions from its Allston campus at 30 percent of the national standard for a similar project in exchange for a potentially speedier approval process for campus construction. PIM(P)co MY BAILOUT Less than a year after leaving Harvard to return to a wealthy private financial fund, Mohamed A. El-Erian said in an interview with Reuters that his $812-billion firm would offer to manage part...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, two world-famous artists who have stirred controversy over the years with their large-scale projects, received a Harvard Law School award yesterday in recognition of their skill in negotiating permission for their works. The Great Negotiator Award is given annually by the Law School’s Program on Negotiation and has historically been awarded to figures in business and international diplomacy. Christo and Jeanne-Claude—a married couple recently known for their 2005 project “The Gates” in Central Park, which featured over 7,500 bright orange structures...