Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last winter, as the final tenants moved out of a Harvard-owned building at 7 Sumner Rd., one said "it's no use fighting Harvard. They just wear you down and in the end they win." The once-full brick apartment-house is now full of Graduate School of Design offices...
...smaller, but equally long-running, housing controversy continues to simmer at 7 Sumner Rd., where Harvard evicted all the remaining tenants about 10 months ago after a two-year battle...
...University came after most of the precedent-setting negotiations. Erickson is a lawyer with the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray, and a part of the briefcase corps that helps Harvard deal with its tenant problems. Specifically, he had worked to secure the evictions of tenants from 7 Sumner...
Estimates of the aftereffects of the battle vary. "I think it was a major motivation in pushing the expansion ordinance," Sullivan said, adding that the law, if passed, "will make future 7 Sumner Roads much more difficult." And bad blood lingers, he added. "It was one of the worst defeats for tenants in the last few years. I haven't forgotten it, and I won't for a long time." Armistead, who said "the rules were changed on us in the middle of the game" by the passage of a law requiring all Cambridge developers to obtain permits before removing...
Harvard's relations with the city remained sour through most of the year; the University drew fire when it finally won its battle to evict tenants from a Sumner Rd. apartment building and received widespread criticism for failing to increase its voluntary payments to the city to help compensate for 2 1/2. The only applause Harvard has won from Cambridge is for its work with neighbors in planning the development of a parcel of land on Mt. Auburn St., cooperation that may become increasingly commonplace with the passage of a tough new law that will allow Cambridge to regulate University...