Word: treadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only after Sullivan had obtained an option on the site where the Treadway Motel now stands did the University and the city even begin to discuss the possibility of building a joint parking garage there. While Harvard and Cambridge sat by and watched, Sullivan rounded up the $350,000 banknote that he needed to take up the option. The motel has been a financial success and has added quite a few parking spaces to the area. If University and city still sulk, they had better ask themselves why they did not get there first...
...filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle Square. The new management is already planning to add several more stories, and the parking is just fine...
This would not be the first building on stilts in Harvard Square. The first is the Treadway Motor House at the opposite end of the square, which is now adding another story after only ten months of operation. Its success is no doubt due to the occupants' peace of mind at being protected from the snakes which infest the area...
Hearings took place before the House Committee on Cities which was considering bills by Senator Francis X. McCann and Rep. George W. Spartachino to sell the land, part of historic Cambridge Common, at the petition of John Briston Sullivan, the building's promoter. Sullivan previously engineered construction of the Treadway Motor Inn on stilts in Brattle Square...
...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...