Harvard Alumnus Gives Gift for New Conference Center
Harvard Business School announced that Seth Klarman, M.B.A. ’82 and Beth Klarman have made the naming gift for Klarman Hall, a major new conference center, auditorium and performance space that will replace the existing Burden Hall. The new facility had been incorporated into the HBS elements of Harvard’s recent institutional master plan filings for Allston development. The project description, according to Harvard’s draft environmental impact report associated with the master plan filing outlines 140,000 square feet of new construction, to be built in two phases.
The first phase will consist of building a 110,000-square-foot, three-story complex just south of Burden with seating for approximately 1000. It will connect to the Spangler Center, the center of MBA student life and to academic buildings at the concourse level. The second phase will be building a 30,000-square-foot, two-story, below-grade facility for meeting and classroom space. Continue reading…
