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This modern facility is designed to provide critical resources to enhance the department's training capabilities, maintain certifications, and provide a hands-on, immersive experience to ensure firefighters can respond effectively to any emergency further supporting the department’s ability to protect the community.

In honor of the Cambridge Senior Center’s 30th anniversary, Susan Pacheco, Executive Director of the Council on Aging, and Alicia Johnson, Director of the Cambridge Senior Center, reflect on the past three decades.

Current seven-Year Open Space and Recreation Plan covering the period 2009 to 2016. Required by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs for eligibility for open space funding.

808 Memorial Drive is a 300-unit apartment complex overlooking the Charles River. Over a period of seven years, residents worked together with Homeowners Rehab (HRI) and the Trust to acquire and renovate the property. HRI completed renovations in 1998 and this former “expiring use” property is now permanently affordable.

A Cambridge man in his 40s, who had reportedly pulled a weapon on his health care worker and then barricaded himself inside his large, multi-unit Massachusetts Avenue residential building apartment, was safely taken into custody by officers and transported to a local hospital for a mental health evaluation earlier this afternoon.

On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, leaders from the City of Cambridge and the Commonwealth gathered with nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) to mark the beginning of renovations at the former Sacred Heart church rectory and school in East Cambridge. By the end of 2027, POAH plans to complete construction on the property, which will create 46 new permanently affordable apartment homes.

The Capital Building Projects Department was established in FY24, consolidating existing programs from the Executive Office and Public Works Department in order to continue to deliver high-quality professional management of the City’s expanding building improvement project portfolio.

This group will advise and provide regular updates to the City Manager and the Executive Director of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority on proposed uses within the Foundry building, which will be redeveloped and operated consistent with the vision and objectives that resulted from an extensive community planning process..

Since 1995, the Cambridge Senior Center has been supporting older adults in our community through a variety of programs and services. Susan Pacheco, Executive Director of the Council on Aging, and Alicia Johnson, Director of the Cambridge Senior Center, reflect on the past three decades.

An interview with Rachel Tanenhaus, ADA Coordinator for the City of Cambridge and Executive Director of the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD), and Kate Thurman, Assistant ADA Coordinator and CCPD’s Deputy Director, about the ADA’s impact on the disability community.