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...midst lies Kendall Square, 24 controversial acres of barren land in two plots known as the Triangle and Quadrangle. The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA), the city's semi-independent urban renewal agency, has plans for the site: offices, luxury apartments, and a motel would occupy the Triangle while the Quadrangle would be reserved for "job-intensive" uses...
...pair of recently proposed developments in East Cambridge would do nothing to stop that trend. In fact, they would help guarantee its continuation. For that reason, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's (CRA) revised plans for developing Kendall Square and a private developer's proposal for a 500-room hotel on Memorial Drive are unacceptable...
...CRA originally wanted to fill both the so-called Golden Triangle and the Quadrangle in Kendall Square with motels and garages, a retail shopping complex, office space and upper and middle-income apartments. After strong community opposition, the authority now proposes to go ahead only with its plans for the Golden Triangle, while trying to ease unemployment by finding light industry for the Quadrangle...
This is not good enough. Past experience with urban renewal in Boston and Cambridge induces skepticism about the CRA's promises, especially since it previously pleaded that it could not find any light industry for Kendall Square. The Golden Triangle and the Quadrangle must be considered as a single unit, and the CRA must try harder to both attract new manufacturing concerns to Cambridge and relocate light industry from predominantly residential sections of the city, thus opening up space for desperately needed low-income housing...
...representative of Hard Times, JoAnn Allen, said that she did not trust the CRA to look for blue-collar jobs. "Don't split the Quadrangle and Triangle--they're one area," she said. "Before you know it, they'll be back to the original plan and the people are zonked...