Word: cambridgeport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both proposals sought to end a more than two-and-one-half-year debate on what type of development should be allowed in the Cambridgeport Industrial District, located in the southern tip of the city...
...neighbors are telling me that Cambridgeport has had its share of problems and troubles and they want to move very, very slowly, said Independent Daniel J. Clinton, the only Councillor who lives in the area...
...that the present zoning will allow developers to concentrate on highly profitable office complexes, which would not provide job opportunities for the largely blue collar population. In addition, the housing constructed along with the offices will be liminted and accessible only to white-collar workers, serving to gentrify the Cambridgeport neighborhood...
Frustrated by the inability of the council to act on the zoning. MIT--the largest land-owner in Cambridgeport--moved last year to begin to take steps toward developing the former site of the Simplex Cable and Wire factory 27 acres in the north of the industrial district Last week, the university designated forest City, a Cleveland, Ohio-bsed firm, as the developer for the project...
Despite concerns raised by several of the council's liberal members that the failure to pass any new zoning gives MIT and other developers a free hand in Cambridgeport, Clinton said that "even people working on the Simples petition know nothing is going to happen for a year...