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Menino to Harvard: Cut that out
By adamg on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 8:36am
The Crimson reports Menino grabbed Dean Wormer in a chokehold sent a strongly worded letter to Harvard President Drew Faust demanding answers to how Harvard is going to clean up the mess he says it's leaving in Allston:
The letter called for Harvard to provide details within roughly two weeks about the budgetary quandary that forced the construction slowdown, as well as an outline of the slowdown’s impact on contracted workers. Menino also wrote that within 30 days, Harvard should provide a community impacts mitigation plan for the construction slowdown, as well as a proposed schedule for the development of the Institutional Master Plan for the Allston campus that identifies a "transformative project for the community."
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Menino's administration has
Menino's administration has held up downtown developers for years - until the economic cycle turned down, and the devolopers lost their financing or the market couldn't support the new space. Now, Harvand is supposed to do something in two weeks? Harvard should tell him to fuck off.
Yes, he's choosing an easy target.
Everybody likes pointing fingers at Harvard.
Maybe Menino should check on how things are progressing with cleaning up the broken windows and dead lots in Meeting House Hill & Fields Corner. I'm pretty sure it was more than two weeks ago that he was there kicking off an initiative to help out the neighborhoods after rampant foreclosures, so I'm sure it's completed now.
I find myself agreeing with Mayor Menino here.
Harvard has done far too much expansion into the neighborhoods, and, if there's one thing that reidents don't need is a big biological research building right in their midst. If I were a resident of Allston-Brighton, or even the downtown district, etc., that's how I'd feel.
hey not whitey
Yeah, well when you close down businesses and clear a bunch of land with the expectation of undertaking a pretty big project, you impact the community surrounding the jobsite. Plus the fact that not only do the contractors get held up, but now suppliers of materials miss out. So now there's a big hole in the ground that's just doing nothing because Harvard has no balls. Good for Menino for calling them out on it. Harvard should tell you to f- off, get your facts straight, typical liberal crap.
Ryan- SouthBoston
Thats hilarious because I
Thats hilarious because I don't think Harvard is used to being told what to do lol. I think his time line is insane, but I like the spirit of it.
Tell mumbles to shut up.
Tell mumbles to shut up. Harvard is trying to avoid massive layoffs by halting this construction. And the layoffs will probably happen anyway.
The Usual Grandstanding
Why bother formulating systematic policies on zoning, property upkeep, etc. when you can play extortion bingo against a big target?
God forbid the city identify distressed properties and threaten city clean up action and eminent domain if vacant properties are not secured and kept up, heating bills for tenants not paid, etc.
So much easier to bray and bellow at Harvard ... and not John Hynes. Why, that woman wasn't born around here, doesn't live in Boston and will cave for sure when faced with mumbling powers of PATHETIC! (not) Meanwhile, zillions of zoning and housing and health and safety violations piling up in forclosure-plagued neighborhoods will be forgotton with one truly fine act of grandstanding! (not)
Menino taking action? I
Menino taking action? I guess it must be an election year!