It's amazing how much better it accomplishes the goals of the new MIT open space, IMO. This space is actually fun and has nice, enjoyable art and GOOD greenspace! Are there ping pong tables? That's the one thing I think I'll miss from the old space, if not.
Not the worst, but I think it would be better if the big time corporations who want lots of space were the ones who moved to the areas with more space. The advantage of Kendall Square is lots of people with lots of diverse ideas and lots of investors in high density, that value added is...
Takeda has leased lab space all over Cambridge, especially in Cambridgeport. I think this is an effort to lease fewer buildings and have more people in the same location.
I believe the reason lab development is taking off even more since COVID is that it's more resilient to the new nature of...
I'm offended because it (along with a lot of other parts of this project) flies in the face of what MIT said in community meetings for this project. They held a whole bunch of public meetings that were clearly just for show. They didn't take any feedback from it. I get that it wouldn't mean...
Everybody who I've ever seen walk by it, including myself, has just been confused.
There is no context. There is no explanation. And, why, of all possible art, is this what they put? This has no contextual relationship to anything going on in the area. There is a huge space here practically...
I agree with all of this. The one thing I don't get is - why is rent for that spot unreasonably high? After six years the market has spoken. Half a loaf is better than none.
I'm hoping a lot of retail arrives/comes back. I'm honestly a little pessimistic on it, though. I don't know if it's the area, or if MIT or Graffito just suck at it, but that retail spot next to Sulmona/Cafe Luna/Aveda has been unfilled for six years straight. They're marketing, but will they...