Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building were allowed to reach 50 years of age. The decision 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. oppose Harvard Real Estate's proposal to build a five-story hotel on the land and from faculty members, who have already asked the University to consider using the site for library or office space...
...Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announces that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will acquire the Gulf station site from Harvard Real Estate...
...city council amends a petition to rezone the eastern end of Harvard Square to include only the Gulf site. Several councillors express support for the new petition...
...City Council rezones the Gulf site, severely curtailing Harvard's development rights. Harvard threatens...
Such expansion has raised questions about the underlying aims of the University, its role in the community and the purpose of growth itself. Is Harvard primarily an academic institution or a real estate company? Many asked, "Why build a hotel?" Members of the faculty noted that the site could be better used as a library or a building to ease the faculty office crunch. Community activists screamed about insensitivity, charging that the University was destroying area neighborhoods...