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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, 963 KB)
- Link to Neighborhood Statistics
Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study
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.
2003 Neighborhood Study Update
Recognizing the need to ensure that the recommendations put forth in the neighborhood studies remain current, the neighborhood planning staff works to update the neighborhood studies, reviewing recommendations to identify those obsolete, completed or remaining to be completed and to establish a schedule for 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 such update completed. These files are in PDF format and require use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.
2010 Neighborhood Study Update
The objective of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study and subsequent updates is to identify planning issues in the neighborhood and articulate recommendations to address those issues. The study recommendations are the key part of the neighborhood study and updates. The recommendations are used not only to guide neighborhood planning efforts for the Community Development Department but in many cases are included as work items for other City departments when appropriate.
The 2010 Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study Update provided an opportunity to report back to the neighborhood on the status and progress made on the previous set of neighborhood recommendations and to get information on any new or outstanding issues facing the neighborhood that should become new recommendations.
The final report for the Cambridgeport Study Update is now available and can be downloaded below. Printed copies are available by request. To request a printed copy by mail please call Tracey Joyce in the Community Planning Division at 617/349-4651 or email her at tjoyce@cambridgema.gov.This file is in PDF format and requires use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.
Also of Interest to Neighborhood Residents
- Cambridgeport Blue Ribbon Committee Report. Completed 1986.
- Cambridgeport Revitalization Plan. Completed 1983.
- Cambridgeport Roadways Project.
- Central Square Action Plan. Completed 1987.
- Central Square Advisory Committee
- Central Square Commercial District
- Central Square Map (623 KB)
- Charles Riverfront Planning: Connecting People to the Charles
- CitySmart Program
- Dana Park Improvements. Completed 2004.
- Draft Central Square Development Guidelines. Completed 1989.
- Farmers Markets in or near Cambridge Map
- Fort Washington Historic District, administered by the Cambridge Historical Commission
- Harvard University and MIT Town Gown Reports. Annual.
- Lafayette Square and Massachusetts Avenue Project
- 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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