City Officials Discuss Yards Sale With MTA

The members of the Cambridge City Council and the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority had dinner together Monday night, and incidentally, discussed the forthcoming sale of the MTA's Bennett St. yards.

The meeting was arranged by the Council in order to insure that the city's interests would be protected when the MTA disposes of the 12-acre site, located on Boylston St. across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses.

Councillor Bernard Goldberg described the meeting as "harmonious", and said that the MTA trustees had promised to consider the City's interests in selling the property.

Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 said the Council had been assured that the sale of the property would be public, and that the MTA was not negotiating with a private purchaser.

The MTA will invite closed bids on the property in newspaper advertisements sometime this month. Harvard, which has wanted the site for some time for the construction of a tenth House, will submit a bid