{"id":1309,"date":"2012-10-19T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-03-10T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:12:10","slug":"it-wasnt-dreary-until-harvard-got-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t dreary until Harvard got involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org\/pdf\/PlanningPublications\/Harvard%20Allston%20IMPNF%20for%20Ten-Year%20Master%20Plan%2010-19-12.pdf\" title=\"Harvard IMPNF\" target=\"_blank\">submission for developing its tracts of land<\/a> in Allston were released today by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.  The Globe article refers to Allston as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/realestate\/news\/2012\/10\/19\/harvard-offers-more-details-massive-expansion-into-allston\/Hw3QwPapgpC9Qfba0nwEyH\/story.html\" title=\"Boston.com: Harvard IMPNF\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;dreary section of the city&#8221;,<\/a> but the biggest drag on the neighborhood has been Harvard&#8217;s practice of purchasing property, emptying it of tenants, and leaving it vacant for years.  And let&#8217;s not forget the huge hole on Western Avenue, the someday site of a science complex.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"It wasn't dreary until Harvard got involved\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1309\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard&#8217;s submission for developing its tracts of land in Allston were released today by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The Globe article refers to Allston as a &#8220;dreary section of the city&#8221;, but the biggest drag on the neighborhood has been Harvard&#8217;s practice of purchasing property, emptying it of tenants, and leaving it vacant for years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allston","category-harvard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}