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Article: Revival along the Charles River Commercial revival along Charles River rides high-tech wave in Cambridge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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A quiet renaissance is giving an economic and aesthetic boost to
a long-moribund commercial area along the Charles River in Cambridge.
On a one-mile stretch of Memorial Drive, buildings that began
their lives as factories early this century only to fall into disuse
are being revived.
But instead of the auto assembly plants or warehouses they once
were, the buildings are returning to life as spiffy corporate
headquarters or lab space for some of the cutting edge young
businesses that are fueling the city's explosive growth.
"Those buildings along the Charles I think show Cambridge has
changed from a manufacturing city to a high-tech city," commented
City Councilor Francis Duehay. "That's ...