Word: cambridgeport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city has overcome many of the problems that plagued its development. The splits and divisions between neighborhoods have healed at least a little from the day when the snooty residents of Old Cambridge asked that they be officially separated from East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Corruption, patronage and inefficiency, at times the hallmark of city government, have given way to an administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hard hit by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected...
...group, which also staged protests outside reunion activities on Saturday, objects to MIT's large land purchases over the past decade in the Cambridgeport section of the city...
Although the land is in a primarily industrial area, MIT "is talking of marketing it for research and development and high technology uses which would severely affect the neighborhood's economic diversity," Bill Cavellini, head of the Cambridgeport Steering Committee, said yesterday...
...generation of younger speculators and developers now moved in, men who would change the face of Cambridge over the next century. Andrew Craigie, who lived in the Longfellow mansion on Brattle St. was typical. Working through straw buyers and fronts, Craigie quietly acquired most of the real estate in Cambridgeport, built bridges and dug canals. His crowning accomplishment came when he lured the country courthouse and jail to his East Cambridge properties, assuring that other development would follow...
James Caragianes, a community activist in the Cambridgeport neighborhood, which borders Central Square, said, "Residents are getting a little hot under the collar--in fact, they're getting about ready to explode...