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The pharma/biotech is driven by both the MIT/Harvard connection but also the local cluster of medical research institutions. You don't have to go back too far t
by jghn 11y ago
The pharma/biotech is driven by both the MIT/Harvard connection but also the local cluster of medical research institutions. You don't have to go back too far to get to a point where real estate in Kendall/Central/East Cambridge was relatively cheap. The confluence of these things is what started the feedback loop there.
- ghaff 11y agoFeedback loop is a good way of putting it. Yeah, I remember when the area beyond Tech Square or so was basically "there be dragons here." There was a lot of, shall we say, underutilized land from Cambridge's day as an eastern Detroit a fair chunk of which MIT owned but hadn't developed. I would walk to Kendall when I was an undergrad but I thought of that as being totally disconnected from where the long-gone Lechmere was.
- jghn 11y agoYeah, my memory goes back to the late 90s where there was kendall sq proper (area around the T stop), Cambridge Center, 1 Kendall and the Galleria and not a whole lot in between any of them. Tech Sq was there too although no one ever went there except if they had to go to tech square. Even though the distances are all the same everything seems so much closer now just because it's almost a single contiguous entity now instead of 5 min walks through parking lots and empty space just to get to the next building.