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...Baptist church; Alcoholics Anonymous offers meetings for Anglos at 6, for Mexicans at 8. But everyone strolls along the seaside malecon to hear the mariachis and goes to the same black-market dealers for illegal hookups to U.S. DirecTV satellites. "It's great," says Lou Wells, 67, a former railroad clerk. "We get hbo, Showtime, and we can watch $150 pay-per-view fights for free...
...schoolteacher wife--distribute hundreds of Spanish-language textbooks to San Felipe schools. And Bruce Barber, a former food-company executive, combs the desert for the grave of a 16th century explorer. What brings them all to the far edge of the Sonoran desert? Lou Wells, a onetime railroad clerk, answers with a decal on the side of his VW dune buggy: NO BAD DAYS...
...first contend with current tenants occupying the land under long-term lease. The Public Broadcasting Company WGBH sits in four buildings along Western Avenue with a lease until 2044. The Genzyme Corporation owns a pharmaceutical production plant beside the Charles on a lease until 2057, and CSX transportation owns railroad rights of way, known as easements, through the center of the property in perpetuity...
...easements have long been the thorn in the side of potential Allston developers. The presence of the railroad thwarted Genzyme’s plans in the early 1990s to expand across the site Harvard now hopes to develop...
...could never get anything by that railroad. No luck whatsoever,” Fitzgerald says. “In fairness to the railroad, it’s not something you can easily pick up and move...