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Plans for the development of a large complex incorporating hotels, office and retail space on Memorial Drive near the Kennedy School have been moving quickly since the developers and neighborhood activists settled their differences over the site in December...
Construction of the $75-million Charles Square project-formerly known as Parcel lb and situated on a four-acre site behind the Kennedy School-is scheduled to begin in May, Richard L. Friedman, president of Carpenter and Co. the developers, said last week...
Controversy, surrounding the land began in 1963, when then-president John F. Kennedy '40 chose Parcel lb as the site for his memorial library. But neighborhood groups opposed the library, concerned about increased traffic from tourists, and the Kennedy family decided to relocate the memorial on Columbia Point in Boston...
Oriental Land Co., the Japanese real estate company that built and owns the park, began reclaiming land for the site 19 years ago in Urayasu, a town of 80,000 just outside the capital. In 1974 the company began holding serious talks with officials of Walt Disney Productions, but the negotiations were often tortuous. Recalls Disney Vice President Frank Stanek: "Both sides had to penetrate formidable cultural barriers." A deal was finally struck in 1979, under which Disney agreed to provide its technology, advice and guidance during construction in return for a share of the gross ticket take. Before...
...Urayasu site devotes 114 acres to the theme park itself, with the rest for parking and services, thereby outdoing the California Disneyland, which opened in 1955 and has only 74 acres of park space. But the Japanese version barely noses out the 106 entertaining acres of Walt Disney World (opened in 1972) near Orlando, Fla. Naturally, the latest version is more expensive than the other two: $652 million, excluding land. Overall, though, the Tokyo park might equal or even surpass the $913 million spent for the Epcot Center adjunct to Disney World...