Kendall Square Parcel ‘C’
Cambridge
Returning to this ten-acre site in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square some twenty years after working on the initial Master Plan, one parcel remained undeveloped, known as Parcel C. Ken Greenberg was retained by Biomed, the new owners of the site, to provide urban design leadership to a team with CBT Architects for the development of this last strategic parcel and its integration within the larger site and neighbourhood contexts. In the intervening years the area has matured, with more intensive mixed-use development on all sides and more projects in the works. This presents new opportunities for a more ambitious public realm plan enhancing the site as a pedestrian oriented crossroads linking to adjoining sites, the ‘T’ station and the remnant portion of the Broad Canal. A mixed-use hybrid program of uses is envisaged for the site combining labs and offices with a substantial components of arts and cultural uses at lower levels serving a variety of audiences and community needs and animating the enhanced public realm surrounding the parcel and traversing the larger site.