City wants Boston College to rethink student housing plans
Feb 22, 2008 11:51 AM
City officials in Boston are urging Boston College to find
alternatives to its plan to build student housing on the property formerly owned
by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Nearby residents said they would prefer
that the college use the former archdiocesan property, which the college calls
the Brighton campus, for academic and administrative use.
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Boston Globe article.
FROM DECEMBER 2007: Boston College plans to spend $1.6 billion over the next decade to
expand and rebuild its campus, bolster its faculty by 15 percent, and create a
dozen academic institutes in a far-reaching effort to vault the Jesuit college
into the top echelon of the nation's universities.
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