Word: allston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years after the University secretly bought 52 acres of land across the river in Allston, outraging many residents, Harvard is beginning to develop plans for the new property. A physical planning committee is considering several uses for the land in the years and decades ahead; among their ideas is that the Allston property could be developed into a new "academic precinct" of the University, perhaps as a new home for one or more of Harvard's space-starved graduate schools...
Harvard has the resources to do virtually anything with the land it wants, and it's understandable that University planners are salivating over the property. Carving a new campus out of Allston's streets would be a tremendous undertaking, one that could benefit the city and would certainly benefit the University...
Harvard, however, must learn from its mistakes. The University should not develop the land the same way it bought it--without regard for the Allston community. No matter how attractive a new "academic precinct" might sound to University planners, convincing residents already leary of Harvard that it will be good for Allston might not be so easy...
...credit, the University has tried to patch up relations with the city, donating land last year for an Allston branch library. More recently, the University has agreed to increase its payment in lieu of taxes to the city by $12 million. But the fact remains that by covering up its purchases, even in order to protect itself from inflated real estate prices, Harvard acquired its land in an underhanded manner, a move that will likely taint town-gown relations for years to come...
...part of the new agreement, the University has said it will construct 288 new units of graduate student housing on the Allston campus by the fall of 2002 to free up housing in Boston--and in Harvard-owned apartments--and to bring students closer to campus. This development will house 554 students and will put 75 percent of Business School students' residences on campus...