Word: cgis
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Until about three years ago, when the original plan was scrapped, the price tag for CGIS was cited at $30 million. But from the very beginning, officials should have known the cost would be far greater, says David A. Zewinski ’76, associate dean of the Faculty for physical resources and planning...
...says that the initial estimate of the center’s cost—which had been the basis for naming CGIS after Sidney Knafel—was a vague “placeholder” approximation of how much the new building would cost...
...University unveiled a new plan. Coolidge Hall would be razed, along with another Harvard building across the street that houses University Information Systems. In their place, two major new buildings—connected by a costly tunnel under Cambridge Street—would form the heart of CGIS. Four historic houses nearby would be renovated for use as Harvard research centers, and one of them the University had to buy and would have to relocate several blocks away at a cost of about $1 million...
...Sites are so few and far between that when you get an opportunity like CGIS represents…you’re willing to pay a premium for that,” he says...
...shifts and redesigns raised the cost of CGIS to over $100 million. For nearly a decade now, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has wanted a government and international studies center to be one of his major projects as dean...