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Tenants of 7 Sumner Rd. won the right to stay in their homes for the time being last week, when the Cambridge Rent Board upheld a recommendation from a city examiner denying Harvard the right to evict them...
University officials were unavailable for comment. Maurice Kilbridge, dean of the design school, said last month that the school had several options for temporary office space if the Sumner Rd. plans fell through. Alternatives include rental space in the Square and University-owned offices underneath Memorial Hall...
...pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property off the tax rolls," the letter to the Board of Overseers states, citing as proof the University's purchase of the Continental Hotel and the refurbishing of a building on Sumner Rd. City councilor and former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a longtime foe of the University, demanded in January that Harvard increase its in-lieu-of-tax payment, later asked for a review of the tax-exempt status of the Biological Laboratories on the grounds that private funds were being...
...fairly small amounts of taxable property off the rolls in recent years. When it has removed taxable property, the University has made payments to Cambridge "in lieu of taxes," Brewer said, adding Harvard has already promised to make a full and permanent in-lieu-of-tax payment on 7 Sumner Rd., the only property the University is currently converting to a non-taxable use--office space...
...University has already promised full payments in lieu of taxes on 7 Sumner Road, a Harvard-owned building that will become tax-exempt when it is converted from residential apartments to Graduate School of Design office space...