This is a preliminary report.
The collection of photos I created yesterday, October 15, 2023, is massive. It will take quite a bit of time to process them. However, as I have started this project, it is clear that some major issues are blatant. So here goes.
Years ago, as part of its empire building, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology purchased a historical warehouse on the South Side of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA, between Vassar Street and the Grand Junction Railroad. We have reported on a “multi-use” path going by it. The warehouse has featured prominently in the publicity for this nonsensical highway.
MIT has constantly promised to preserve this historical building. We have made copies of those promises from MIT’s website. Those details will be provided when I can process the massive number of photos I took.
MIT has started bringing reality to the warehouse and to the “usual types” who run around Cambridge bragging about reality being somewhere close to the nonsense commonly splattered about development in Cambridge.
Here are the ONLY photos on the website which we have found. The description of MIT will be provided verbatim in our coming report.
Here is the Vassar Street side:
Here is the Massachusetts Avenue Side:
This photo is taken from my October 15, 2023 photos. This is the Grand Junction side viewed from Mass. Ave.
Not at all surprising when you are dealing the fraud in the communication of development in the City of Cambridge, MIT keeps secret its side facing the Grand Junction. Because of the DELIBERATE secrecy, we are forced to improvise. The Grand Junction side was close to identical to the Vassar Street side.
Here is ONE of our many photographs of the Grand Junction side on Sunday, October 15, 2023:
Note the PARTIAL MESSAGE SHOWING. The full message remains on the Vassar Street side, above.
MIT claims to be renovating.
This photo was taken from Massachusetts Avenue on the Grand Junction side of the building.
Running from the left, first is shown a partial view of the REMAINING Mass. Ave. Frontage. Then you have the undestroyed portion of the Grand Junction frontage. The next “building” facing the Grand Junction railroad has the remnant of the sign which is still whole on the Vassar Street side.
Look to the left of the frontage. There you will see an interior wall of this created subbuilding. Look a little bit to the left and you will see THE INNER PART OF A FALSE FRONT remaining facing Vassar Street. The other side of the false front fits MIT’s rendition of the Building it is “saving.”
Here is a view of Mass. Ave. front taken from the opposite side of Mass. Ave. on October 15, 2023:
NOTE THE HOLE AT THE TOP OF THE FRONTAGE. That is the destruction facing Mass. Ave. as of October 15, 2023. On the right, you can see the Grand Junction and the Grand Junction frontage.
Here are one true gem in Harvard Square of which Cambridge environmentally reprehensible City Council voted to encourage destruction. The Cambridge City Council has a 200 page guidebook to the politically correct way to destroy Harvard Square. Any and all planned destruction will be decided by a body selected with major input by the bureaucrats. This is the same bureaucracy which from 1991 or 1992 to 2012, AT MINIMUM LIED that an alternate route to putting the “Inner Belt” subway through the Wild Area and up the Grand Junction next to this building DID NOT EXIST.
The kind of people who get appointed by that bureaucracy tend to look at this excellence, SNIFF and say “next case.”
A key part of the LIE that Kenmore Crossing did not exist in “inner belt” plans was the need to move Landsdowne Station on the Commuter Rail line from near Fenway Park to one block from the core of the Boston University campus, at Mountfort and St. Mary’s. The core part of Boston University is on the opposite end of the BU Bridge from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese.
Landsdowne Station survives as part of a four building complex across from Fenway Park (2 up, 2 approved). The developer was decidedly shocked when I told the developer of Cambridge’s plans. Very quickly, as these things go, the state rebuilt Landsdowne Station to full station standard. Now it is under this massive new building which is very visible from Fenway Park. Lies are normal in Cambridge, MA. Boston University has major holdings beyond the Beacon Street Bridge, in the distance. The station is under the building to the left. This station is not going anywhere.
But Cambridge, MA, has a terrible City Council which is doing all it can to create outrages.
