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Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Wants Govt.'s 5.8 Acres

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Representative Michael Capuano files legislation in Congress that would allow the government to turn over a portion of its 14.3-acre parcel in the Kendall Square area to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for development of housing and open space.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on April 24, 2002

CAMBRIDGE, MA-The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority wants to see residential units be built on government-owned land in the Kendall Square area and apparently Representative Michael Capuano agrees. So much so that the congressman recently filed legislation in Congress that would allow the government to turn over a portion of that parcel to the CRA for development.

“We convinced the Congressman that it would be a good idea,” Joseph F. Tulimieri, executive director of the CRA, tells GlobeSt.com. The federal government has title to a 14.3-acre parcel in Kendall Square on which there are five buildings totaling 340,000-sf of space; an amount that Tulimieri points out is miniscule for that size parcel. The land was transferred to the federal government by the CRA back in the 1960s for development of a NASA site. By the end of 1969, when the agency was in the process of transferring additional land, then-President Lyndon Johnson decided to shift the NASA operations to Houston. The US Department of Transportation took the site over and developed the National Transportation System Center there. Since then, notes Tulimieri, “nothing has gone on there for 30 years. The site has stayed there like that.”

Capuano’s bill wants to see open space and 250 units of housing on 1.8 acres of the site. The other four acres would remain as open space. The legislation would provide for 30% affordable housing with 25% of that figure for low income housing.

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