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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Kennedy first announced in 1961 that Kennedy would build his library in Cambridge, and in 1963 he chose a site near the Business School. In 1965, the City Council invited the library to build in Cambridge, and specifically mentioned the subway yard site. However, in spite of this and the prestige value of the library, as well as the construction jobs it is likely to provide, the complex has run into much opposition in the community...
...argument over the Kennedy Library site hinges on two issues: parking and related facilities construction on the site. The library is expected to attract at least one million tourists a year, and cause a six to seven per cent increase in traffic in the area. Community groups have called upon the Kennedy Corporation to provide hundreds of parking spaces to accommodate the crowds...
...Cambridge area. Kanavos Enterprises, a Cambridge development firm, has announced plans for a 315 room Holiday Inn across from the Harvard Square Post Office, to be finished by June 1974, and another local developer, Graham Gund, plans to build a 500 room hotel on a Memorial Drive site. Both developers have said that they expect most of their business to come from visitors to the library...
...acres on the Kennedy site, only three will be taxable. The rest of the site is Federal or University property. For this reason, the character of related facilities to be built on those three acres is crucial to Cambridge...
...Cambridge Planning and Development Department has stated, that the library project must "substantially augment the tax base and economic activity of Cambridge." Construction of tax exempt facilities "on the site, which is some of the potentially most valuable real estate in North America, is a luxury which Cambridge is hard pressed to afford," the Department continued...