Thought some of you would be interested.

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> Date: March 6, 2009 9:15:20 AM EST
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> Subject: SJC says museum expansion won't violate will (Isabella  
> Stewart Gardner Museum)
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> Good Morning all,
> Lisa
>
> ----- Forwarded by Lisa White/CA01/01/USCOURTS on 03/06/2009 09:13  
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> Dear Judges,  Here's the link to the museum:  http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
>
> Lisa White - US Courts Library
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> SJC says museum expansion won't violate will
> By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff  |  March 6, 2009
>
> The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the  
> expansion plans of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum do not  
> violate restrictions created by the museum's founder in her will.
>
> The decision gives the museum permission to remove a carriage house  
> on its Fenway site; create a new entrance, a new building for  
> offices, a gift shop, a cafe, and visitor center, and build a glass  
> walkway between the buildings.
>
> The decision follows reviews by the Boston Redevelopment Authority,  
> the Boston Landmarks Commission, and the Massachusetts Historical  
> Commission, all of which supported the Gardner. The high court's  
> ruling did not please one community group, the Friends of Mission  
> Hill, which has opposed the plans to knock down the carriage house.
>
> Alison Pultinas, a member of the group, said she is now concerned  
> that the economy will stall the project after the carriage house  
> gets knocked down.
>
> "We are just apprehensive that we might end up with a hole in the  
> ground," Pultinas said.
>
> It's been more than four years since director Anne Hawley announced  
> that the museum, which opened in 1903, would undergo its first major  
> expansion. The Gardner has hired Italian architect Renzo Piano to  
> create a multistory building on the museum's Fenway site that would  
> be connected to the ornate building that Gardner, a Boston  
> socialite, designed, modeling it after a Venetian palace.
>
> At the time, Hawley estimated the project would cost at least $60  
> million and would be finished by 2010. Since then, officials of the  
> museum have backed off providing details on the potential cost and  
> timeline.
>
> "We do not intend to break ground or move forward with the project  
> until we are confident we've met our fund-raising goals," said  
> museum spokeswoman Katherine Armstrong.
>
>
>

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