Tufano said that Allston Landing North will serve as a “gateway into the Harvard community and it's gateway out from the Harvard community into the broader business world.”

He added that the Work Team was “heartened by the indications of interest by various parties” in co-development at Allston Landing North.

The report proposes that Harvard hire a third party developer to construct and operate mixed-used structures on the northwest corner of Barry’s Corner, which is currently a parking lot.

These buildings would provide housing for graduate students and faculty and bring retail stores and other commercial amenities to the beleaguered intersection, long envisioned as the hub of a “main street” environment that the University promised to put in place on Western Ave. as it constructed academic facilities in Allston.

“We don’t want to Harvard-ize Barry's corner,” Krieger said of the building graduate and faculty housing at Barry’s Corner. “This will create more diversity for the neighborhood.”

“We learned to balance our aspirations with the realities of, for example, our  ability to finance them,” Tufano said. “We have to have high aspirations as a university but at the same time they have to be practical.”

With the Work Team process finished, the reins of the University’s Allston planning will be handed over to Executive Vice President Katherine N. Lapp and Alan M. Garber ’76, who was recently appointed provost.

Lapp emphasized in an interview with The Crimson that these recommendations are only suggestions and do not constitute concrete plans, stating that the report’s recommendations “complement but are not dependent on each other.”