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...land Lawrence wants to seize is a 152-acre parcel on the banks of the Merrimac River. Lawrence would like to appropriate 87 acres to the college, and 65 acres to a proposed riverfront park...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Ruling Clears Emerson's Road to Lawrence | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...York City's right to designate Grand Central Terminal a landmark, thus saving the beaux arts wonder from having a gargantuan 54- story modernist tower built over its waiting room. And it was a mere 20 years ago, give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...rising over the U.S. construction industry. Kumagai Gumi, a major Japanese construction firm, started $700 million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury hotel in Chicago's Riverfront Park Development and a 525-room hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Aoki America Construction is building about 1,000 homes in Raleigh, N.C., in a joint venture with a local investor group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Take Manhattan - and Waikiki | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...owned by Star Market at 99 Mt. Auburn St. was included as one of the nine sites in Cambridge with confrmed petroleum leaks. The Riverfront Office Park and a site at 62 Whitemore Avenue owned by W.R. Grace are also on the list of confirmed hazardous waste sites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cited for Waste | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...Orleans had been an early favorite. It has a wealth of new hotels stretching from the Superdome to the French Quarter, a redeveloped riverfront, and is seen by many as the best place to party. But its request for a delay may have hurt its chances. "If they can't get it together for one lousy little weekend," complained one committee member, "how are they going to pull off a convention?" The rival cities couldn't have been more pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Us Entertain You | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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