With construction on the Foundry community building set to start within a few months, advisory groups and officials are in the final stages of talks about how its various components – including the market-rate office space that will pay for it – fit together.
The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House is taking out a $200,000 loan from the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority that will help it explore how to use and secure its historic property in The Port neighborhood.
Public meetings this week look at a potential rescue of the so-called “nonprofit row” near Central Square, turning a whole floor of mall retail space into office space at CambridgeSide, two new medical marijuana dispensaries, bicyclist education and much more.
Kendall Square’s uber-hip Proto apartments are getting a lobby addition that should mystify and amuse its wealthy, techy residents for years to come: A cheeky, faux-bronze plaque identifying Proto as the “former site of the Vaporware Arms.”
Public meetings this week look at how Central Square’s Carl Barron Plaza might be upgraded and whether a pot dispensary will fill the old Out of the Blue art gallery space. Oh, and there’s $5 million for an Inman Square redesign and maybe a Jerry’s Pond cleanup at stake.
The Foundry building has found its architect in Cambridge Seven, a firm based just outside Harvard Square that has built everything from retail and office space to museums and aquariums from Baltimore and Foxboro to China and Kuwait.
A renewed plan for East Cambridge’s empty Foundry building could see it open in 2020 and complete in 2021, filled with community arts, nonprofits, maker spaces and job training focused on science, technology, engineering and math.
MIT’s proposal to zone the 14-acre Volpe parcel in Kendall Square passed a procedural milestone Monday when the City Council was expected to forward the zoning petition for further hearings. Kind of, anyway.
While about 60 percent of the historic East Cambridge building’s space would be dedicated for community uses, some 15,500 square feet would be used for market-rate office space, helping pay an annual $1 million in operating costs.
After a failed attempt by the city to find a developer and manager for the empty Foundry building in East Cambridge, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority is debating taking on the job itself. But board members expressed significant doubts.