Word: mahoneyã
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...proposals for a new modern art museum along the Charles River. While both sides originally appeared somewhat willing to cooperate and to find a mutually beneficial solution, it is now clear that a significant number of Riverside residents are opposed to any Harvard development on the Mahoney??s Garden Center site. Rather than treat the issue as “Custer’s Last Stand,” as the chair of the Cambridge study committee formed to discuss the museum has described it, residents must work constructively with Harvard to enable the University to expand...
...study committee was formed after the Cambridge City Council passed an 18-month moratorium halting development in Riverside, the consequence of resident opposition to Harvard’s proposals for a modern art museum on the University-owned site currently occupied by the Mahoney??s Garden Center on Memorial Drive...
Residents have also suggested other uses that they say they would find acceptable for the Mahoney??s site, such as creating a public sculpture garden or turning over the land to the city in order to build affordable housing...
...Harvard] to give the Mahoney??s site to the community is nothing out of their pocket,” Riverside resident Joan Qualls-Harris says. “But the good faith it would create would be more beneficial than anything you could build there...
Community opposition to Harvard’s proposals to build an art museum on the property now occupied by Mahoney??s led residents to request the original development moratorium last year...