Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Range Plan for Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge and Allston" classifies the lot as being without any "foreseeable" prospect for future development. Supratik Bose, manager of long range planning, believes that Red Line subway extension work will force many cars down Mt. Auburn, making it an unsuitable site for a building...
...that he was bowing to the wishes of Cambridge community groups, that he would recommend to the corporation's board of directors in June that the whole complex be built at the University of Massachusetts campus at Columbia Point in Boston. Smith offered Harvard one chance: produce a suitable site for a museum within one month, and retain the archives separately in Cambridge...
Smith insisted ironclad guarantees for the split-site proposal. He stipulated that Harvard's proposal include an already existing site in Massachusetts for the museum, that there be total community acceptance of both sites, and that the University pledge financial support because of the obvious additional cost of working with two buildings instead...
With that ultimatum Harvard swung into action, proposing that the library corporation use three acres of the Business School land in Allston for a museum site. The offer was doomed from the start. Although residents of the community behind the MBTA yard site supported the Allston plan, residents of the Riverside community of Cambridge, immediately across the river from the Allston site, rejected it. The plan failed to meet Smith's requirements...
...goodbye." Since June Harvard has spent more than $30,000 to work out an arrangement with the city of Cambridge on the related facilities--those structures that are to accompany the archival portion of the library if it ever gets built in the MBTA yard site. The negotiations are the lifeblood of the Cambridge end of the deal, because it is by selling some sort of package to a developer--which may include entertainment facilities, hotels, or a small shopping plaza--that Harvard hopes to recoup the $3 million it would give the Kennedy Corporation...