Right side of Main Street is actually intensively master-planned. It is the Cambridge Center development, all by a single developer.
Left side of Main Street is MIT, possibly interleaved with a few remaining privately-held parcels. MIT's expansion into the area between Ames Street and the Sloan School has been rather haphazard.
Complete with an yet un-built giant statue of the goddess Athena with the milk of knowledge flowing from her left breast down a narrow rivulet into the Charles
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has purchased four life sciences buildings in Cambridge for $90.5 million, broker Colliers Meredith & Grew said. The seller was a private family trust. The buildings at 185 Albany St., 195 Albany St., 148 Sidney St., and 149 Sidney St. have just under 150,000 square feet of space. The properties are 100 percent leased to four tenants: MIT, Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., Shire Pharmaceuticals, and Acceleron Pharma Inc. the broker said
Does it all have to be so grim?
There's an exception to every generalization. Hitchcock made great thrillers. The Birds sucks.