Jan
12
Target practice & free tetanus boosters
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The Globe is looking for your ideas for repurposing the North Allston Science Complex wasteland. Presumably this is entirely un-serious, barring highly unlikely eminent domain actions. Because really, do you think they’re gonna let us play paintball there? There will never be any use of the site until someone scratches together a few odd billion to bang the building out.
With Harvard University suspending construction on its $1 billion science complex in Allston, how could the expanse of concrete and steel be used creatively until Harvard drums up a new way to finance the project? We’d like to hear your ideas — big or small, serious or whimsical.
Nov
22
On Harvard Time
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On Harvard Time stops by Allston on Halloween (I hope) to get the drunken word on the street.
Jul
16
Fishing ain’t easy
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But it’s free, for a week anyway, at The Fishing Academy if you’re in Allston/Brighton and age 6-18. The free Allston/Brighton week is July 27th-31st, from 9am-3:30pm. Scholarships courtesy of cash from the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund. The Fishing Academy is ‘a non-profit that takes inner-city girls and boys off the streets and gets them into nature’.
Daily Trips to local Fishing spots: Charles River, Jamaica Pond, Muddy River, Brookline Reservoir, Farm Pond, Chandler Pond, Walden Pond, Crystal Lake, Castle Island, Buckmaster Pond.
Sounds like fun. Except for the whole killing/eating animals thing but I’m trying to let that part slide.
Jul
9
Good fences…
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Well this is amusing.
We learned at last night’s Harvard Allston Task Force meeting that the BRA and Harvard believe this $60,000 fence is a “community benefit”.
Mar
31
This is Harvard
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If you’re interested in such things check out This is Harvard, a new & fairly active blog covering the Harvard pullback in North Allston.
From a new post on modeling Allston after Beverly –
No one expects Harvard to empty its endowment to rebuild Allston. What people do expect is when you own that much property that you have a clear plan for it – both short and long term. One would also expect some course correction due to changing circumstances. There HAS to be a middle ground between doing NOTHING (the current short term plan) and building a $1 billion building (the old short term plan).
We agree entirely.