Funding in place for 20-unit Port Landing, affordable project near Kendall Square
A affordable-housing development called Port Landing has been announced for a vacant parcel in Area IV near Kendall Square. It is expected to open in August 2016.
Opportunities for youth can end violence such as Wednesday shooting, Benzan says
Another act of violence has taken the life of a human being in our city in Area IV – where I grew up and call home, an area with one of the highest poverty rates in the city, and where there have been nearly a half-dozen murders dating back to 1990.
Shooting victim dead in Kendall Square after driving from attack; killer is sought (update)
A killer is at large after leaving a shooting victim in a car near the Marriott Hotel in Kendall Square, police say.
Renaming Area IV to ‘The Port’ hits glitch: Vote already happened, and a change lost
Vice mayor Dennis Benzan put through an order for a vote, and the council approved it. But councillor E. Denise Simmons had some awkward news for him resulting from a previous attempt at a name change.
Five things to do this weekend: July 17-19
Student Marketplace and Makerspace Open House; ArtBeat 2015: “Loops” arts festival; Summer Radio Mystery Theatre’s “Night of the Super Sleuths” show; “Spellbound Comics #1” release party; and “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry.”
Councillors support more housing for those pressured in increasingly exclusive Cambridge
With the average single-family home selling for $1.5 million, few people can afford to buy here. It is for that reason that we support more housing, and particularly more affordable housing.
Mass+Main zoning goes to full council, official’s alternative swept aside for now
The Normandy/Twining zoning petition is going to the full City Council with a favorable recommendation for adoption from a council Ordinance Committee meeting Wednesday.
Builders up affordable units to 20 percent of Central Square’s proposed Mass+Main
Developers promising 47 units of affordable and middle-income units out of 230 say they “know of no other private developer-owner that has offered such a permanent contribution with this type of income mix without taxpayer subsidies.”
Four designs propose islands, more canal, in competition for ConnectKendall ‘prize’
Four finalists for the chance to develop an open space “framework plan” for in and around Kendall Square make their presentations today and Wednesday, with a winner to be announced in April.
Affordable rental and homeownership program information session is Dec. 8
The city’s next free walk-in informational sessions on affordable rental and homeownership programs is from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in Central Square.
