Harvard Square Infill and Small Developments

#bancars said:
A few updates on the Harvard Square kiosk project:

www.thecrimson.com

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.
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www.bostonglobe.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.
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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.
 
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www.bostonglobe.com

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.
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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.
 
KCasiglio said:
www.bostonglobe.com

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 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.
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Yep. More corporate ownership, more chain stores. more high-end, more sterile, more oligarchs. That's the way of the whole country pretty much.
 
JS38 said:
So this could be interesting...

www.cambridgeday.com/2025/05/23/a-harvard-square-t-tunnel-unused-for-40-years-might-be-turned-into-an-entertainment-venue/
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I much doubt they'd be able to make the finances work with the infrastructure mods required. RR.net posters who've been given BSRA tours of that tunnel say the air quality is absolutely terrible in there with everything choked in inches-thick layers of dust, plus it currently hosts vent fans for the whole Harvard Station complex. And the T would probably be unwilling to give it up, since they use the portion right behind the wall of the old station ticket offices as a makeshift workshop for station maintenance projects.
 
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