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The new pipe would have an outfall on state-owned parkland in front of Soldiers Field Rd. and the offices of Sanofi-Genzyme.
Harvard has been drawn into yet another expensive political dispute over a construction project in Allston â this time over a drainpipe that the University maintains is essential to prevent flooding in its new developments. Opponents contend the project has been advanced without transparency and engagement with stakeholders.
As the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and Harvard proceed with the North Allston Storm Drain Extension Project â an estimated $50 million endeavor the University has pledged to fully fund â local politicians, residents, and environmental groups have called for further investigation into its potential environmental impacts.
Nick J. Grieco, a guitarist, is known by his friends as the one among them that continued to live in Allston after the rest moved elsewhere.
Nick J. Grieco moved to Boston in 2006 for his first year at the Berklee College of Music and relocated to Allston soon after. Fourteen years later, heâs still there. Even after watching friends move to other cities, he chose Allston as the place to build his network and launch his music career.
âI think my circles of friends that left before â they totally see me as the guy who stayed,â Grieco says.
Grieco stays for the same reasons that compelled him to settle in Allston in the first place: He recognized the opportunities a diverse neighborhood with a rich arts scene could offer a young guitarist early in his career. Allston, known by some as âRock City,â has been a creative hub since the â60s, cultivating a punk and alternative rock scene that bred the likes of Aerosmith.
For the twenty-first consecutive year, Harvard University has been named the largest employer in the City of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Community Development Department â the cityâs planning agency â releases a report detailing the 25 largest providers of jobs in the city each year. Harvard has been the top employer since 1986, except the three years when MIT clinched first place instead.
In 2020, Harvard employed 12,858 âfull time equivalents,â which the CDD defines as an employee working 35-40 hours per week.
University spokesperson Brigid OâRourke wrote in an email that Harvard strives to complement Cambridgeâs mission to be a âthriving place in which to live, learn, work and play.â
As the University forges ahead with construction in Allston, some residents said they are worried about how the new projects â the Enterprise Research Campus and a development at 180 Western Ave. â will impact neighborhood stability and affordability.
Anthony P. DâIsidoro â a member of the Harvard-Allston Task Force and president of the Allston Civics Association â said that affordable home ownership is among his chief concerns.
Allston has a reputation of being a âtransient community,â where people come for education and then move out to the suburbs to buy a home, according to DâIsidoro.
He said he hopes new developments will help âreverse these negative trendsâ and provide more âstabilityâ in Allston.