Word: treadway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When realtor John Briston Sullivan wanted to erect the Treadway on city land between Mt. Auburn and Eliot St. in 1961, he had to go to Crane for the needed parcel. And in a unique deal Crane engineered the sale of the "air rights" to Sullivan to build the hotel provided he leave some municipal parking spots underneath. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 Crane was duly rewarded with some legal business at the other end of the state. Although Harvard had at the time offered to build a much larger parking garage on the site and then give...
...Moss, attorney for the Treadway Motor Inn, also on Mt. Auburn St., opposed granting the zoning changes, terming them "illegal." He said after the hearing "Calling the Holiday Inn property transitional is a sham." He noted that Cambridge is currently negotiating with another developer concerning the commercial development of land on the "residential [west] side" of the Holiday Inn site...
...hotel will be lower than Holyake Center, about even with the height of the IAB, and only slightly taller than Widener and the Treadway...
...dinner from 5:30 to 10 Mon, Thurs, and until 11 on Friday and Saturday. It's open for dinner until 10 on Sunday. A hostess shows you to the nearest table with a view of Mt. Auburn Street, with its trolleys, parking lot, and Treadway Inn. Passersby peer at you from the sidewalk, through unwashed windows. The three dining rooms are oaken, motel style with Dubuffet reproductions on the wall...
Some freshmen have moved in with friends in the Union dorms instead of rooming in the Commander or Treadway. Others have bedded down in common rooms and living rooms further away from the activity around Mass Hall. Those who remain in their rooms say the inconvenience of transferring to the hotel outweighs the noise discomfort...