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Council Eyes Legal Action Over $23M Hayward Place Parcel

BOSTON-The city council considers legal action against the Boston Redevelopment Authority for taking possession of Hayward Place, a 37,380-sf parcel here in Chinatown. The property is considered a valuable piece of real estate worth up to $23 million.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on March 12, 2002

BOSTON-The city council is considering legal action against the Boston Redevelopment Authority for taking possession of Hayward Place, a 37,380-sf parcel here in Chinatown. The property is considered a valuable piece of real estate worth up to $23 million and the BRA has recently chosen five potential developers for the site.

“I certainly would like to see some legal action,” Maura Hennigan, a city councilor at large, tells GlobeSt.com. “This is taxpayer land. The mayor told the BRA to take it but he is only one branch of the government.”

The case is complicated by the fact that the BRA is basing its claim on a designation that was given to this site over 30 years ago. In 1967, the city council deemed the property surplus land in a tri-partheid agreement with the BRA and Sefrius Corp., which was supposed to develop the parcel. That development never happened but the city maintained ownership of the parcel until this past April when the BRA seized the land under the law of eminent domain.

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