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Opponents of the CRA proposal contend that there is a conflict interest in the consultants the renewal agency hired. The head of Gladstone Associates, the planning consultant, is also a trustee of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, a Boston developer of neighboring Tech Square, the value of which stands to be enhanced by development in the Kendall area...
...community groups have also charged that the CRA and City Council forged a "closed-door breakfast deal" at the Sonesta Hotel on April 15 in which seven of the nine councillors allegedly gave their consent to the CRA's Triangle proposal. All the councillors vehemently deny any collusion...
...will go to any and all meetings on the CRA so I know what's going on," Councillor Alfred E. Velucci promises. "I'll even bug a few offices if I have...
...Thompson, the CRA's director of the Kendall project, says that the Sonesta meeting was initially arranged to inform the councillors of a bill pending in the state legislature which would locate a state office building on the Quadrangle site. According to Thompson, the councillors and CRA representatives also discussed Kendall Square development in general...
After the Sonesta meeting, the Authority revised its two-year old proposal, altering the plan for the Quadrangle from residential to employment uses, and submitted an order to the Council that has sparked the latest round of the controversy. The CRA-sponsored motion would give the renewal agency the power to initiate the preliminary steps for development...