Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

Equilibria said:
300 for residential, 250 max for everything else. 500 on the Volpe site would need a variance, and I don't think anything that tall would be proposed in Cambridge anyway...

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If MIT and/or a developer were to acquire all 14 acres, the sunk costs of that acquisition would seem to drive development to lab space, high end commercial, or very high end residential.

Cambridge is going to push for highest and best use; i.e., highest tax valuation. The city would screech if MIT said it would build graduate student housing or affordable housing on that land.
 
stellarfun said:
If MIT and/or a developer were to acquire all 14 acres, the sunk costs of that acquisition would seem to drive development to lab space, high end commercial, or very high end residential.

Cambridge is going to push for highest and best use; i.e., highest tax valuation. The city would screech if MIT said it would build graduate student housing or affordable housing on that land.
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Well, MIT doesn't pay property tax, so if it acquired the land the valuation wouldn't be a problem for Cambridge.

Given the sheer mass of demand for lab space in large chunks right at the moment, I suspect the site would be turned over the exact same type of use as the other major lab projects, with buildings that would look very similar. At least MIT has some urban planning sense and a desire to develop the area intelligently. A developer would probably just block it out 6 stories tall.
 
Marriott Fairfield:

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Miscellaneous Harvard projects.

The House renewal program, expected to cost $1 billion plus in total.

Completed:
Stone Hall (60,000 sq ft) cost $45 million, Quincy House DiMeo construction manager (Stone formerly known as Old Quincy.)

McKinlock Hall cost >$45 million, Leverett House, DiMeo construction manager
(Also known as Old Leverett)

Underway:
Dunster House (180,000 sq ft), cost ? Turner construction manager

Next:
Winthrop House, cost ?

Each renovation is scheduled for fifteen months.

Kieran Timberlake (Philadelphia) architects for Stone, McKinlock, Dunster

http://www.kierantimberlake.com/pages/view/246/stone-hall-old-quincy-house/parent:3
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From the EIS for MIT's nano lab: bedrock is 125-130 feet below the surface. That probably holds true for Kendall too.
 
I was in Cambridge last week and they're doing reconstruction of the Main St. / Broadway intersection. I can't find any details about it anywhere, but I'm hoping it'll fix the bike connectivity situation (where it's really hard to get from the Main St bike path to the 3rd St bike path).
 
Awesome, looks like they're getting rid off the useless signal in front of the Marriott (that nobody pays any attention to)
 
Forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong thread. I was looking over Boston Properties' presentation from its investor conference last week and it looks like it may have some plans to build new space in the Kendall area. Here are four slides that appeared in succession...definitely appears to be conceptual at this point, as these are essentially just showing potential massings as opposed to any real renderings.

I believe they're looking at the long low-rise (parking garage) in top-right portion of the area outlined in red:

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Current massing:

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Potential future massing:

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When did the name change from Cambridge Center to Kendall Center? And interesting to see they would consider residential on that corner lot.
 
Not bad. A much better density than what is there now. Get ready for activist yowling though about building on the park.
 
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