Law School Planning

Just over a year ago, a committee of faculty and administrators at the Law School began work on strategic planning for the school's future needs, a task linking planned academic growth to future physical-space requirements. Then, over the summer, word that the school might consider the option of moving to Allston spread among members of it's faculty. An explosion of e-mails ensued. On balance, the professorial reaction to an Allston move has not been enthusiastic. (For more on expansion possibilities in Allston, see "South by North Harvard," September-October, page 67). Yet the school is running out of space. To date, this has revealed itself in relatively small ways--the relocation of a daycare center for example. Now, as on Oxford Street, the school is about to begin studying the feasibility and enormous expense of burying some or all of its surface parking lots, including the five-story Everett Street parking garage. Once the planning process is complete, the options for growth in Cambridge will presumably form a basis for comparison with the alternative: a move south of the Charles River.

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