Allston could get even studentier: Harvard starts thinking about expanding undergrad enrollment and putting the new dorms in Allston

By adamg on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 6:25am

The Crimson reports Harvard is only talking about a possible student uptick in the vaguest of terms at this point - except to deny they would do it just because several of their Ivied competitors - and Stanford - are doing it.

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YAAAAY!!!

By Marco on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 10:10am.

more un-taxable land! Don't raise the "in-lieu-of" payments! Just surcharge my property taxes! Keep giving city land away! Tax Breaks for big corporations! Tax breaks for developers! Tax breaks for everyone exceopt residents! WOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Probably not

By adamg on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 10:30am.

You do realize Harvard already owns a ton of land in Allston, right?

yup....

By Marco on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 1:04pm.

that they don't pay tax on. Now they will add more Residents to the city, and pay NO MORE TAX, or "In Lieu of" payments than they did before, while adding stress to the infastructure of the city. At least if a 40 unit condo building goes up somewhere thats 40 units that pay property tax. Dorms built on land they already own are going to add people and no tax dollars.

Would this worse-than-the

By anon on Fri, 05/13/2016 - 11:46am.

Would this worse-than-the-Quad isolated housing replace the Radcliffe Quad, or supplement the quantity of undesirable "on-campus" housing?

Oy gevalt!!

By mplo on Sat, 05/14/2016 - 2:33pm.

This is ridiculous! As if Harvard (and other colleges/universities in this area) haven't encroached deeply enough into neighborhoods and destroyed their characters enough as it is already?

It's disgusting that Harvard is allowed to take liberty and license to encroach so deeply into neighborhoods, drive a lot of the live-time and long-time residents out of them, and to have more late-night/wee hours of the morning drunken student tests taking place there.