Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property off the tax rolls," the letter to the Board of Overseers states, citing as proof the University's purchase of the Continental Hotel and the refurbishing of a building on Sumner Rd. City councilor and former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a longtime foe of the University, demanded in January that Harvard increase its in-lieu-of-tax payment, later asked for a review of the tax-exempt status of the Biological Laboratories on the grounds that private funds were being...
...fairly small amounts of taxable property off the rolls in recent years. When it has removed taxable property, the University has made payments to Cambridge "in lieu of taxes," Brewer said, adding Harvard has already promised to make a full and permanent in-lieu-of-tax payment on 7 Sumner Rd., the only property the University is currently converting to a non-taxable use--office space...
...University has already promised full payments in lieu of taxes on 7 Sumner Road, a Harvard-owned building that will become tax-exempt when it is converted from residential apartments to Graduate School of Design office space...
...isolated instances in the past week have shown that such compromise is possible. University officials announced they are considering a compromise with tenants scheduled to be evicted from apartments on Mellon and Sumner Streets. Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the Faculty of Design, said the tenants had suggested the compromise plans his staff is looking at. The consultation between city and school, it seems, can be workable, and effective...
...University did take the first steps toward assuaging some of the hard feelings last week, when Graduate School of Design officials announced that they would consider giving tenants on Sumner St., scheduled to be evicted on June 1, more time to move...