Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
One dead, one critically hurt in stairwell collapse during preservation work at First Street Garage
A collapsing stairwell at the city’s First Street Garage in East Cambridge killed a construction worker and left another man with “significant” chest and arm injuries early Wednesday.
Police are investigating early Tuesday shooting that left one man wounded in East Cambridge
Police are investigating a shooting at Fifth and Spring streets in East Cambridge at approximately 1:30 a.m. Tuesday that left a 33-year-old man with non-life-threatening injuries.
Attend meetings on condo conversion fee idea, neighbor groups, Envision goals, Alewife plan
Public meetings this week look at the city’ credit ratings, zoning plans and whether to add affordable housing to a city parking lot in West Cambridge; services for students; neighborhood group representation and the goals of Envision Cambridge; and a possible condo conversion fee.
Conservation district study for East Cambridge continues, filled with questions and contention (corrected)
A study of whether to carve an architectural conservation district out of part of East Cambridge continues Wednesday, after a first try ground to a halt in March with the coronavirus lockdown. The first process had also grown notably nasty.
Attend meetings on single-family zoning law, snow removal, MIT dorm plan, Palmer Street
Public meetings this week look at snow removal, while the snow keeps falling; an Alewife Quadrangle zoning petition, continued; MIT plans for a grad student dorm; a possible end of zoning just for single-family housing; remaking Harvard Square’s Palmer Street; and more.
Laced Quality Kitchen, Geppetto and Spyce open, catering to variety of Cambridge culinary tastes
Three eateries opened in Cambridge since mid-January capture very different aspects of the city and its eating habits – as a fried chicken mecca (Laced Quality Kitchen), a paradise for higher-end comfort food (Geppetto) and a home to healthy innovation (Spyce).
‘ECBeeA Crosspollinator’ campaign highlights ECBA’s lively business-to-business ecosystem
Important relationships between business owners and how they support each other can be missed, but an East Cambridge Business Association campaign is designed to show off those connections.
Cambridge, Somerville could join silver line, bringing riders directly to Logan (or casino)
An extension to the silver line that could bring its buses to Cambridge, Somerville and Everett and add service in Boston and Chelsea will be studied by the MBTA and state Department of Transportation through 2022.
Grilled cheese, tomato bisque and a host of other treats from new Café Beatrice
Between two thick, golden slices of airy sourdough oozed mild, aged cheddar. It was simple and needed nothing else. No mustard. No nothing. I ate outside and I ate it fast, not because it was cold, but because it was that good.
