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New courthouse process could start this week
By Marc Levy
Published: March 28, 2012 at 03:48 PM
The reboot on remaking the former Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse could start as soon as Friday, said Tim Toomey, the state representative and city councillor with the deepest ties to the East Cambridge neighborhood around the hulking building.
Restaurateur Bardy is back, asking: Is Harvard Square ready for Liberal Servings?
By Marc Levy
Published: March 27, 2012 at 02:58 AM
Harvard Square is already due to see The Sinclair, a late-night restaurant and 525-person concert hall, open in the fall. Now a smaller performance venue and restaurant called Liberal Servings is targeted for 13 Brattle St., the heart of the square.
Harvard Square launches its own daily deals (for good causes)
By Marc Levy
Published: March 26, 2012 at 05:04 PM
The daily deals field is getting more crowded, as well as more local: The Harvard Square Business Association is announcing its own deals as part of its harvardsquare.com.
State rejects all developers bidding for courthouse
By Marc Levy
Published: March 22, 2012 at 10:30 PM
The state has rejected all developer bids for the former Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse, according to a letter seen by Chris Matthews, vice president of the East Cambridge Planning Team.
East Cambridge group backs plan cutting back rooftop garden
By Marc Levy
Published: March 19, 2012 at 01:57 PM
In a surprise move, a neighborhood group is supporting a plan by the developer Boston Properties to shrink a rooftop garden in Kendall Square but contribute money toward developing a larger, ground-level park nearby. The company’s letter contained surprises of its own.
Lacking housing commitment, residents resist trading garden for Google space
By Marc Levy
Published: March 16, 2012 at 03:27 PM
Google and its expansion plans in Cambridge were caught in the middle Wednesday between its landlord, Boston Properties, and the intense and bitter mistrust East Cambridge residents have for it.
East Cambridge leaders go into meeting with firm position on Kendall garden
By Marc Levy
Published: March 14, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Plans to eliminate some of a Kendall Square rooftop garden, allowing an expansion of Google office space, gets a hearing tonight in East Cambridge. But neighborhood leaders have already staked out their position.
The top 10 employers in Cambridge (2012 edition) and how to contact them
By Marc Levy
Published: March 11, 2012 at 08:52 PM
Look at the continuing growth among Cambridge’s top 10 employers and it’s easy to extrapolate what’s at risk with the proposed MBTA service cuts. Until and unless those cuts kick in, though, there seems to be job opportunities aplenty right here in town.
Petition passes, scaling back development around Linear Park
By Marc Levy
Published: March 5, 2012 at 10:42 PM
A North Cambridge neighborhood won the unanimous vote of the City Council on Monday on zoning that holds the line on development around the area’s Linear Park, keeping two projects to a total of 97 apartments and condominiums instead of as many as 133.
Citizens’ development-limiting petition will wait a week
By Marc Levy
Published: February 29, 2012 at 01:54 PM
The citizen petition to cut back on development around North Cambridge’s Linear Park is on a week’s delay, mainly so the documents needed to let city councillors judge the issue can be tidied up and gathered in one place.