Category: Harvard

Housing’s afterlife

21 July, 2011 (10:08) | Allston, Boston, Cambridge, Displacement, Harvard, Politics, Preservation, Redevelopment, Renovation, US News |

By: David A. Smith   Doctors bury their mistakes.  Developers drive by theirs daily.    An urban pile of concrete no one can love: Charlesview in Allston   Remarkably, some properties get resurrected — if, that is, they have the blessing of a politically fantastic location, worth a fortune to a nearby rich global university [...]