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...Board advises the City Council to have the entire Harvard Square business district declared an urban renewal area, after which it says, Cambridge could take the Yards by right of eminent domain. Next, two blocks opposite the Treadway Motor House would be demolished to form a "super block," and the City would be ready to build. The proposed development, which the Board has tentatively named "University Plaza," might include convention and cultural centers, hotels and motels, and medical offices and research facilities. A pedestrian mall over Mt. Auburn Street would link it to Brattle Square...
...Today these four parties are as intact as ever: the Roosevelt-Truman-Stevenson-Kennedy presidential Democrats; the Willkie-Dewey-Eisenhower-Rockefeller presidential Republicans; the John Garner-Howard Smith-Harry Byrd-John McClellan congressional Democrats; and the Allen Treadway*-Robert Taft-Charles Halleck congressional Republicans...
...Wiggins said yesterday that Sullivan "will receive more consideration than developers from other localities" to improve the corner of the Yards near the Treadway Motor Inn. If Harvard is able to buy the Yards, that corner will probably be given to Sullivan under a 40 year lease...
Hidden under the Treadway Motel is Moda Boutique, an import shop carrying Milanese knit suits (which range in price from $25 to $150) and outfits from Capri, Israel and Austria. The shop carries a fine assortment of basic lingerie, too. One of its specialities is blouses, made to your measurements in four days from Italian silk scarves you select yourself...
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...