Harvard Square Infill and Small Developments

[Charlie_mta]

A few updates on the Harvard Square kiosk project:

Harvard Square Kiosk to Return as Visitor Center, Cultural Space | News | The Harvard Crimson

The City of Cambridge announced Thursday that the kiosk, an iconic Cambridge landmark which has languished under years of slow-moving renovations, will serve as a dual “community gathering space and information center” when it reopens in early 2025.

www.thecrimson.com

‘It shouldn’t be this difficult’: Why fixing up a kiosk in Harvard Square is costing millions and taking years - The Boston Globe

The structure that once housed Out of Town News has languished in construction purgatory. Now, Cambridge says its next act will begin soon.

www.bostonglobe.com

Ha ha. I used to take the escalator up every morning in that old kiosk on my way to high school back in the 1960s. It was great.

 

[KCasiglio]

End of an era: The Pit, a landmark of Harvard Square, is demolished - The Boston Globe

The spot had been a gathering space for generations of young people in the region’s counterculture.

www.bostonglobe.com

Very fond memories of late nights when I was going to school at Lesley. Have barely been up that way in the past decade. Always skeptical of people complaining about change but it does seem to have gotten a little sterilized since then in the few times I've passed through.

 

[Charlie_mta]

End of an era: The Pit, a landmark of Harvard Square, is demolished - The Boston Globe

The spot had been a gathering space for generations of young people in the region’s counterculture.

www.bostonglobe.com

Very fond memories of late nights when I was going to school at Lesley. Have barely been up that way in the past decade. Always skeptical of people complaining about change but it does seem to have gotten a little sterilized since then in the few times I've passed through.

Yep. More corporate ownership, more chain stores. more high-end, more sterile, more oligarchs. That's the way of the whole country pretty much.