Cambridge's $1.2B Smart Growth Community

North Point is a "once-in-a-century opportunity for courageous city planning."

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November 19, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

"The site, 48 acres at the easternmost edge of the city beside Monsignor O'Brien Highway at the Lechmere station, gives environmentalists a thrill: industrial land close to Boston that is effectively being recycled, instead of farmland being bulldozed for more sprawl. Affordable housing advocates are also overjoyed, because the proposal is mostly residential, not commercial: up to 2,700 units, including some for low- and middle-income residents, by any standard a healthy jolt of supply to ease Cambridge's infamous housing crunch."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: Cambridge neighbors cool to $1.2b building plan

Sunday, November 18, 2001 in The Boston Globe

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