Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tenants in a University-owned apartment building at 7 Sumner Rd. will file a complaint with the Cambridge Rent Board today charging Harvard with violating a city ordinance restricting renovation of rental property...
...city ordinance requiring permits for renovations may be slowing Harvard's conversion of a Sumner Road apartment building into office space...
...banking" purposes, in case Harvard needed an astro-zoology library some day. The city stepped in to do battle, especially once Harvard started evicting tenants from apartment buildings it had brought. And while Harvard usually won (the last tenants are getting ready to leave the most recent battleground, 7 Sumner Road), it was only at a price. In 1974, sick of the city's anger, the University agreed to a set of boundaries. Despite occasional violations, the "Red Line" has quieted some of the furor over actual University growth. But other developments, including Harvard's low mortgage rates for faculty...
...other incident, Harvard said they would continue to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Road so the building could be turned into office space for the Graduate School of Design. Some city officials, including the man who drafted the final version of the law, claim a new ordinance might make Harvard's action illegal...
...community relations office in the last few years. Controversy has marked Brewer's year on the job, from the furor over a wall near the Church Street Garage, to the leasing of a building across the "Red Line" on Ware St., to the messy eviction of tenants from 7 Sumner...