BC neighbors to BC: mostly, “No.”
Boston College has filed a 10-year expansion plan with an estimated price tag of $1 billion. The college owns property in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston, as well as in the town of Newton, next door.
Some people, namely those who live nearby, don’t like the idea so much.
Well, those people who live in Allston-Brighton don’t like the idea so much. Newton neighbors seem to have a much-more positive opinion of the college. Perhaps because they are less affected by students? Perhaps because there is less off-campus housing in Newton? I honestly don’t know.
Anyway, the city of Boston set up a 12-person “community task force” to review the plan, and yesterday they came back with some recommendations.
According to an article in the Boston Globe, the task force doesn’t want BC to build anymore on-campus housing, at least not in Allston-Brighton. (They want the school to put the rest of their kids on the main Chestnut Hill-Newton campus.)
It did, however, offer one concession: it’s willing to let the college buy a nearby apartment building and turn it into a 560-student off-campus dormitory.
That’s at least encouraging.
But, probably futile. Mayor Thomas M Menino (D-Sicily) has publicly stated his opposition to the college’s proposal to buy the building. The reason being, according to the word on the street, because it currently brings the city a cool $450,000 in annual property tax payments.
So, we’ll see what happens.
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