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Friday, March 19, 2010
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Work has been done lately at the decaying Faces nightclub property on Route 2 in Cambridge, but not to replace the building itself. (Photo: Marc Levy)The work seen lately at the decaying Faces nightclub property on Route 2 is on infrastructure — sewage or piping, according to a city Web site — not construction to replace the building itself.
The organizers of the Boston Urban Exchange are looking to hand off responsibility for the event, a roughly monthly gathering of planning and development nerds that launched in Cambridge last summer.
Jason Ong, Jamie O’Brien and Jason Crow work in the big studio at Cambridge Community Television in 2007. The organization’s lease has ended at its 675 Massachusetts Ave. offices. (Photo: CCTV)Cambridge Community Television’s search for office and studio space is “down to the wire,” executive director Susan Fleischmann said Thursday, and there is still no deal in place or lease signed.
Residents at 45-47 Yerxa Road didn’t know they weren’t allowed to live there, and on Wednesday they remained ignorant that a case was headed to court that could uproot them from their homes.
Buses speed along Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. There have been complaints drivers have ignored red lights — and videos posted by wbztv.com showing them doing it. (Photo: Marc Levy)Buses running red lights and a raft of problems surrounding the Cambridge Main Library — unused meeting and cafe spaces, shortened hours, parking snarls and a failure to incorporate students from the neighboring high school — have caught city councillors’ attention.
There were hints of a resolution Monday to the long-empty 450 Massachusetts Ave. storefront owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo: Marc Levy)The decline of Central Square drew debate from city councillors at their Monday meeting, but also signs of hope for two prominently empty storefronts on Massachusetts Avenue.
Does Cambridge have a predisposition to doing things the hard way? Some recent news items suggest it does.
Last year’s rezoning in Kendall Square, which adds density by building upward and freeing open space, was cited Saturday by Cambridge Mayor David Maher as an approach the city is taking toward being more environmentally conscious. (Photo: Kingdafy)The city’s third and final climate congress was held Saturday, wrapping up its four-month span with votes to ask city government to organize and lead the fight to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in Cambridge, but leave room for citizen involvement.
Last year this list ran with the warning that an enumeration of the top 10 employers in Cambridge was “a moving target.” It turns out the target doesn’t rove as much one would think, but some movement resulted from — get this — companies adding jobs.
East Cambridge Business Association president Carl Fantasia of the New Deal Fish Market, Maria Gomes of East Cambridge Savings Bank and Chris Kosinski of the East Side Bar & Grille attend the association’s first evening networking event Feb. 25 at the Grille.With a neighbors group presenting a masterful plan for Lechmere Square and a new business association hosting its first evening networking event, both in the past week, it may be time for East Cambridge to cast off its underdog status.
The second Boston Urban Exchange draws a crowd to Middlesex Lounge in July. (Photo: Gena Peditto)
The new top 10 employers in Cambridge — and how to contact them | 
