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Harvard turning Allston into a ghost town?

Harvard, being Harvard, thinks in the long term, like decades. So it's natural that it thinks nothing of buying up large swaths of Allston and then letting it lie fallow as it figures out its master plan for its properties. The Boston Business Journal reports nearby residents and business owners are beginning to be less than thrilled:

... The university says it now owns 1.2 million square feet of commercial space in Allston, about half of it empty, and its buying hasn't let up. One activist calls it 'property warehousing.' ...

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