In the early 1970s, large chunks of the Columbia Point peninsula remained a barren moonscape. Even as UMass Boston’s campus started to carve out its own fortress-like-foothold, the former landfill was seen as a decrepit no man’s land. The John F. Kennedy Library, then still on the drawing boards, was bound for the banks of the Charles River on the Harvard University campus,

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