Word: tunnel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Stone arrived, Harvard had received all the permissions for the CGIS except for the right to dig a tunnel underneath a busy city street, which would link the two buildings of the government center...
...only problem: the CGIS’s would-be neighbors had opposed the project for years—and took up a last stand against the tunnel, saying that its construction would be unnecessarily invasive...
...Stone personally took part in negotiations over the tunnel, spending dozens of hours talking with neighbors and trying to hammer out a compromise...
Stone took the negotiations seriously. He would not comment for this article, citing his objection to a Crimson staff editorial that criticized tunnel negotiations...
...negotiations failed. Stone sent a letter to neighbors in January to inform them that Harvard had decided to build a tunnel-free CGIS...