Word: allston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North East Brewing Co. An Allston brewpub with more homemade beers than any place in town. 1314 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02134 At Redford Street (617) 566-6699 Open Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. T: Grigg...
Frothing over with all the naive energy of a first-year baseball nut, I was no more aware of Allston's mercurial weather patterns or Harvard baseball's poor track record than of the learned arts of "mailing in" response papers or putting a smile on a TF's face during section...
Harvard has had a serious image problem in the Boston area in recent years. The revelation in the summer of 1997 that the University had been secretly buying up land in Allston created tension, especially with Menino...
Harvard should take pains to listen to Allston residents, especially this early in the planning process. University expansion has always been a contentious issue, and there is probably no way that Harvard can make everyone in Allston happy. However, if residents have a say from the beginning, the likelihood that a mutually beneficial plan can be worked out will be much greater. Harvard is going to have to sell whatever plan it eventually comes up with to the Boston Redevelopment Authority anyway. The sooner the University starts bringing residents into the planning process the more likely it is to have...
...hope it can happen. A new campus across the river would be great for Harvard. And, arguably, the business it would attract would be good for Allston too. But in the end it may turn out that the people of Allston don't want a Harvard outpost plunked down in their midst. If so, there are far less obtrusive uses to which Harvard can put its land--storage space, office space, new labs--and any of these would be preferable to assuring decades of animosity by building a new campus in a community that doesn't want...