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...Tenants in the Ware St. building, located two blocks from the Yard, first received a hint of the conversion plans Friday, when Ware St. Associates member Emily Flynn left messages asking tenants to call her, Barbara Wishnov, who helped organize the tenant complaint, said yesterday...
...decision city tenant activists called a strong warning to landlords thinking of converting their apartments to condominiums, a state court this week fined a Cambridge landlord $8,000 for making renovations without a building permit...
...Some of these people have not been particularly friendly to the CCA for a little while," Elaine Kistiakowsky, president of the CCA said yesterday. The CCA has become more liberal and tenant-oriented over the last decade...
...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...
Compromise is possible in that 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...