Slump Revives Town-Gown Divide Across U.S.
Perhaps Kingsport should be asking King College for money, rather than King asking Kingsport to increase its tax base to fund the King non-profit school of medicine venture. The enormous positive economic impact, let alone any positive impact, forecast by the out-of-town “expert”, given today’s economy, is quite questionable.
BOSTON — The rats are out in spades this spring in North Allston, a gritty neighborhood wedged between the Charles River and the Massachusetts Turnpike, and residents are blaming Harvard.
Harvard had big plans to expand its campus into Allston with a science complex. But last winter, the university announced that the recession would force it to slow — perhaps even halt — the $1 billion project. Now Allston residents are living with a gaping hole and a bunch of vacant buildings instead of the prospect of a revitalized neighborhood.
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