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June 23, 2009, 09:18 AM ET
City Approves Controversial Boston College Expansion Plan
The City of Boston has approved Boston College’s $1-billion expansion plan, according to The Boston Globe. The city requires the college to start its projects with an undergraduate residence hall.
The expansion plan has been a sore point between the college and the neighborhood that surrounds it. (See articles here, here, and here.) Even after the plan was approved by the city, residents of the Allston-Brighton turned up at a meeting that was supposed to air the benefits of the development; instead, the meeting turned into a debate over the plan, according to a neighborhood newspaper.
“Many residents at Tuesday’s meeting pushed for a clearer building schedule, or at least an explicit guarantee that student housing would be completed before other projects,” said the Allston-Brighton Tab. “Some in attendance also expressed frustration that both BC and the city of Boston had not done enough to keep residents informed about ongoing construction projects. Many, for instance, said they were unaware of the school’s June 22 construction start date for a $20-million building that will house Jesuit seminarians on Foster Street.”
“We dig and we dig and we dig, because public officials don’t provide the level of information we expect because they don’t think anyone is interested,” said one neighborhood resident. “I am feeling, honestly, like a beggar.”
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