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Cambridge Commercial Districts, Company Listings, and Demographics

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Commercial Districts - Profiles and Resources

Cambridge’s compact geography and population density allows the City’s vibrant commercial districts to offer a healthy retail mix to serve residents and visitors. The existing commercial districts are: Fresh Pond Shopping Center in Concord-Alewife, Harvard Square, Porter Square, the Upper Mass Avenue Corridor, the Lower Mass Ave Corridor, Central Square, Inman Square, Kendall Square and the Cambridge Street Corridor.

Go to Map of Cambridge Commercial and Development Districts.This file is in PDF format and requires use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.

Development Districts

Cambridge’s five development districts are major employment centers, offering a mix of office, research and development, and manufacturing space to high and low technology companies. Much of the new commercial real estate parcels under development are in these districts. The development districts are located at Concord Alewife, Lower Cambridgeport, Memorial Drive, North Point, and University Park.

Life Sciences, High Tech, and Clean Energy Companies

The Economic Development Division maintains listings of Cambridge companies working in the life sciences, high tech, and clean energy sectors. If you have correction or additions to these listing, please email Pardis Saffari at psaffari@cambridgema.gov. These files are in PDF format and require use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.

Go to Life Sciences, High Tech, and Clean Energy Companies Listing

Go to Cambridge Life Sciences, High Tech, and Clean Energy Companies Map (296 KB)

Demographic and Socioeconomic Resources

A wide variety of demographic and socioeconomic statistics are available though the Community Development Department web site.

Go to Demographic and Socioeconomic Statistics

Demographic and sales potential data is also found on the market profiles for each of the commercial districts.

For More Information

For more information, please contact Rona Holmes, rholmes@cambridgema.gov, at 617/349-4637. The Community Development Department TTY line is 617/349-4621.

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