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Cambridgeport - Neighborhood 5
Neighborhood Description
Cambridgeport is a dense and diverse neighborhood consisting of approximately ten thousand residents, abutting MIT on to the east, bounded by Massachusetts Avenue to the north, River Street to the west, and the Charles River to the south. Cambridgeport can be characterized as having a mostly residential core with single and multifamily homes on smaller streets found, for the most part, in a grid layout. The state owned Magazine Beach recreational facilities lie along the Charles River. The Massachusetts Avenue edge includes commercial uses and multifamily residential buildings. Central Square, the main neighborhood commercial center, includes an MBTA Red Line station and serves as a hub for many MBTA bus routes. A significant amount of new development, including new retail, office/laboratory, residential, and institutional uses, has taken place within the former industrial area along the southeastern edge of the neighborhood.
- Link to Neighborhood Map (PDF format, 983 KB)
- Link to Neighborhood Statistics
Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study and Update
The original neighborhood study was conducted from 1997 to 1999 and issued in 2000. These files are in PDF format and require use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.
- Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study (single file, 889 KB)
- Pages 1 through 23 (244 KB)
- Page 24 (396 KB)
- Pages 25 through 94 (375 KB)
Recognizing the need to ensure that the recommendations put forth in the neighborhood studies remain current, the neighborhood planning staff has been working to update the neighborhood studies, reviewing recommendations to identify those obsolete, completed or remaining to be completed (and to establish a schedule for these outstanding items). In a more abbreviated version of the original study process, a series of public meetings is held for each update, and a Summary, Recommendations, and Action Plan document is produced. The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study Update, published in 2003, represents the first of these updates to be completed. These files are in PDF format and require use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.
- Cambridgeport Study Update: Summary, Recommendations and Action Plan (single file, 538 KB)
- Cover and Neighborhood Study Update Summary (466 KB)
- Update Recommendations and Action Plan (80 KB)
Also of Interest to Neighborhood Residents
- Cambridgeport Blue Ribbon Committee Report. Completed 1986.
- Cambridgeport Revitalization Plan. Completed 1983.
- Cambridgeport Roadways Project. See also DPW Project Overview.
- Central Square Action Plan. Completed 1987.
- Central Square Advisory Committee
- Central Square Map (623 KB)
- Dana Park Improvements. Completed 2004
- Draft Central Square Development Guidelines. Completed 1989
- Fort Washington Historic District, administered by the Cambridge Historical Commission
- Harvard University and MIT Town Gown Reports. Annual.
- Lafayette Square and Massachusetts Avenue Project. See also DPW Project Overview and Construction Updates.
- South Cambridgeport Development Guidelines. Completed 1992.
- University Park at MIT Design Guidelines. Completed 1987, amended 1999
Neighborhood Organizations
The following list of neighborhood associations is solely offered as an aid the public. Please note that these organizations are independent of the City of Cambridge; any views and opinions they may express are strictly those of the neighborhood organization.
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Contact Neighborhood Planner
Neighborhood Planner: Taha Jennings, tjennings@cambridgema.gov, 617/349-4603.
The Community Development Department TTY line is 617/349-4621.
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