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...last year, Harvard gave up on two controversial projects after facing uphill battles against local residents who were backed by city politicians. Over the summer Harvard scrapped plans for an art museum overlooking the river, and last winter the University gave up a year-long battle for a tunnel underneath a busy city street that would have connected the two parts of the government department’s future home...
...January, Stone announced that the University would go forward with plans to build the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) in Mid-Cambridge, one of FAS’s top priorities—without the tunnel connecting the two buildings, the lone part of the project that required city council approval...
Instead, they lobbied local politicians to block Harvard from digging a tunnel under busy Cambridge Street, a construction project that they said would disrupt the entire neighborhood...
...CGIS tunnel may be dead, but its ghost lives on. Hopefully it will haunt Harvard’s presence in Allston long enough to ensure that the many varied mistakes of the past are not forgotten...
Negotiations failed, in part, because Cambridge residents conceived of the tunnel as a four-lane wide bargaining chip that it could use to leverage more concessions from the University’s coffers. But the tunnel served practical purposes for students and faculty, and the city of Cambridge could well have benefited from some of the negotiated proposals—if not the tunnel itself, which would have reduced some of the noise and bustle generated by busy academic centers. Increasing PILOT payments will demonstrate goodwill and help to mend fences in obvious need of repair...