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...have great concerns about this,” said State Senator Steve M. Tolman, one of several local politicians who have questioned the sale. “Why is this happening so fast...
...Senator Tolman said that Harvard’s voracity for land was excessive and threatened the survival of local businesses...
...There’s no way Houghton can compete for bidding on that property against an institution with a $20-billion endowment, who’s purchased every square inch of land that they could in the last couple of years,” Tolman said...
...Tolman said that although all of the land—including the 1.4 acre parcel—could be useful to Harvard in the far-off future, he said that the University is too greedy a buyer and unfairly enabled by tax breaks from the state that it gets as a non-profit institution...
...exemptions, I start to wonder if the legislature is not making a mistake granting tax exemption status to a institution that has a real estate division which is buying up property at a faster pace than I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Tolman said...