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POR 2025-49
City Council send a formal invitation to Mr. Gerald Chan to come before the Economic Development and University Relations Committee to answer questions and present his plans for the Harvard Square Movie Theater, as well as his other vacant properties in the City
How it started
Apr 7, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 7, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)
Voted yes (9), unanimous
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons
What’s next
⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amended, unanimousApr 7, 2025
The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page
Harvard Square Movie Theater; now therefore be it
ORDERED: That the City Council send a formal invitation to Mr. Gerald Chan to come before the Economic Development and University Relations Committee to answer questions and present his plans for the Harvard Square Movie Theater, as well as his other vacant properties in the City, so that the City Council and the community can better understand Mr. Chan’s plans for these very important and long vacant properties.
Public Comment (5)
5 written comments received (2025-04-14). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.