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...University, therefore, should recognize that it is in its best interest to cooperate fully with the city, and not try to stall or circumvent planned legislation. In addition, it should remove one of the largest obstacles to good city-University relations by allowing mixed-use occupancy of 7 Sumner Rd. instead of continuing efforts to evict the remaining tenants. In another gesture of good will, Harvard should end its court challenge seeking more money and settle for the city's offer of $475,000 for a University-owned playground on Sacramento...
...regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...Seven Sumner Road has become a case in point, a symbol in community-Harvard relations," City Councilor and tenant activist David Sullivan says. "Harvard is attempting to take a building the city and its population requires and turn it into offices that have been elsewhere for a long time," he adds. Sullivan says tenants around the city are "prepared to fight into the courts to keep Harvard out of there.... The tenant movement is taking position that if Harvard wins, it will be a precedent...
...Seven Sumner Road has become a case in point, a symbol in community-Harvard relations," City Councilor and tenant activist David Sullivan says. "Harvard is attempting to take a building the city and its population requires and turn it into offices that have been elsewhere for a long time," he adds. Sullivan says tenants around the city are "prepared to fight into the courts to keep Harvard out of there.... The tenant movement is taking position that if Harvard wins, it will be a precedent...
...case--the most likely scenario has Harvard using the bottom two floors for office space, but allowing tenants to remain in the upper two stories. But Sullivan predicts that Harvard is afraid of "losing face." If he is right, and if the tenant forces keep up the fight, 7 Sumner Rd.'s stormy history may just be beginning...