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Allston residents demanded further revisions to the planned relocation of the Charlesview Apartments, while others who live in the complex urged that the plan go forward at a crowded and contentious Monday meeting -- the first public discussion since Harvard agreed to add 1.74 acres of land to the proposed new home for the apartments...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Clash Over Revised Charlesview Relocation | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...current Charlesview Apartments, an aging concrete complex that sits at the entrance of the University’s new Allston campus, is slated to be relocated as part of a land swap agreement with the University, filed in February of 2008. The first redevelopment design proposed 12 taller buildings spread across 6.91 acres of Harvard-owned property about a half-mile away on Western Avenue at the Brighton Mills shopping center. The new plans -- proposed in July by non-profit developers Charlesview Inc. and The Community Builders -- would instead have more than double that number of low-rise buildings...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Clash Over Revised Charlesview Relocation | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...continuing effort by Harvard to acknowledge the concerns of the neighborhood and to provide us with responses that we feel are appropriate.” In late December, Harvard stoked community concerns when it acquired another real estate parcel adjacent to the planned site of its relocated Charlesview apartments—although there too the tenant remained on-site. While the University has historically invested in real-estate contiguous to its existing holdings to allow for long-term growth, local residents called on Harvard to improve and lease its existing vacant property holdings in the neighborhood before making further purchases...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University To Freeze Property Purchases | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

Harry Mattison, a local resident and a Harvard Allston Task Force member, said after the meeting that while the presentation was intended to be a broad overview, he would rather the BRA focus more on specific development issues such as the Charlesview apartment relocation and not plans that “may or may not happen in 10 or 20 years...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Planners Present Allston Framework | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...Just down the road, people living in the Charlesview apartments—some of whom who have lived there for the last 40 years—know that they are going to be “moved” by Harvard because their land is a part of the 50-year plan. But these people who will be evicted have no idea of when. In the meantime, the building they currently live in has been deteriorating because no one is willing to fix a place that will soon be razed to the ground...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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