Trump vs. Massachusetts: How one state represents everything the president despises (Boston Globe, 5/27/25) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
In her State of the City address in March, Mayor Michelle Wu spoke about her then-2-month-old daughter. The world she entered was “not the world I expected or hoped for her,” Wu said. “I want her to grow up in the America that Paul Revere rode for, that Dr. King marched for, that my parents left home for.”…
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As housing battles brew, business leaders join the push to build more (Boston Globe, 10/5/2024) (Mentioning KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
Dozens of municipalities are expected to debate new multifamily zoning rules this fall under the state’s MBTA Communities Law. Meanwhile, the Supreme Judicial Court is reviewing a legal case that could prove key to enforcing the ambitious and controversial law…
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By one key measure, Boston’s lab market is in as rough shape as the pandemic-battered office market (Boston Globe, 8/15/2024) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
When demand for office space cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic, many developers doubled down on building lab space instead. Lately, it sure seems like they went overboard…
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Cambridge considers the elimination of single-family-only zoning (Boston Business Journal, 5/9/2024) (Mentioning KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
A Cambridge City Council committee met Wednesday to consider a proposal to allow multifamily housing citywide and to create more incentive for developers to build bigger in exchange for income-restricted units…
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The ‘bump factor’ returns to Kendall Square (Boston Globe, 11/15/2023) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
It’s just before noon on a chilly Wednesday, and Bob Coughlin is making the rounds at Catalyst, a Kendall Square restaurant popular with biotech entrepreneurs and scientists on the hunt for investment capital or research collaborators.
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‘You can’t cure cancer when you’re sitting in traffic’: The MBTA poses a problem for Mass. competitiveness (Boston Globe, 11/10/2023) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney and Emerging Leader Alexander Jones)
If you were riding the Red Line head to toe on May 16, 2022 — from Alewife to Braintree — it would have taken you under 54 minutes, on average. By Oct. 16, 2023 — 17 months later — that same commute would have taken you close to 80 minutes…
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Celebrating Kendall Square’s past and shaping its future (MIT News, 10/23/2023) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
Kendall Square’s community took a deep dive into the history and future of the region at the Kendall Square Association’s 15th annual meeting on Oct. 19…
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Ripple Café will add a bit of music to Kendall, enhancing area not known for entertainment (Cambridge Day, 8/22/2023) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
More music is coming to Kendall Square with approval Tuesday of a Ripple Café location at 314 Main St., a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology building at the entrance to an MBTA red line headhouse…
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Cambridge Seeing ‘Demand Issue’ As Life Sciences Slowdown Continues (Bisnow, 8/3/2023)
Cambridge’s life sciences market is still the top dog in the country, but it is a vastly different one than what real estate professionals remember from just a few years ago…
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Boston Mayor Wu kicks off Vicinity Energy’s electrification plans with the deconstruction of a steam turbine (NEREJ, 12/2/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
Vicinity Energy, a decarbonization leader with the nation’s largest portfolio of district energy systems, serving over 70 million s/f of building space across Boston and Cambridge, has officially kicked off its electrification plans with the deconstruction of a steam turbine at the Kendall Green Energy Cogeneration Facility…
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MBTA officials eye connecting Red and Blue lines (AXIOS, 11/30/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
The MBTA’s extension of the Green Line is finally set to open next month, and transit advocates are looking ahead to see if there’s hope for another long-stalled T expansion project: a link between the Red and Blue lines in the heart of downtown…
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Big Tech Layoffs Could Worsen Boston’s Struggling Office Market (Bisnow, 11/22/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
From the world’s largest companies to small startups, the technology industry has been laying off employees by the thousands in recent weeks, part of cost-cutting measures that are creating uncertainty about their commercial real estate footprints…
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Kendall Square remains a work in progress. Here’s what’s under construction (Boston Globe, 11/13/2022) (Quoting KSA Board Co-Chair Sarah Gallop and Board Member Michael Owu)
Whenever you walk or drive through Cambridge’s Kendall Square, it seems there’s always scaffolding going up, cranes maneuvering overhead, and foundations being dug…
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MBTA Expands Pay- Per-Use Limited Fare Program to Local Employers (MBTA, 10/24/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
Today the MBTA announced partnerships with Kendall Square Association (KSA) members Google and Sanofi, the City of Boston, and retailers in Assembly Row to provide employees of those organizations with local bus and subway passes through the Pay-Per-Use limited fare program…
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Doubling down on sustainability innovation in Kendall Square (MIT News, 10/24/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney and Board Chair Lee McGuire)
From its new headquarters in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, The Engine is investing in a number of “tough tech” startups seeking to transform the world’s energy systems. A few blocks away, the startup Inari is using gene editing to improve seeds’ resilience to climate change…
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Boston, businesses to pay for employee bus, subway rides (CommonWealth Magazine, 10/24/2022) (Quoting KSA Executive Director Beth O'Neill Maloney)
Employees working for the city of Boston, Google, Sanofi, and retailers at Assembly Row in Somerville will be able to ride the MBTA subways and buses for free under a two-year pilot program paid for by the employers…
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In a work-from-anywhere world, how will Kendall Square adapt for the future? (Boston Globe, 6/15/2022) (Quoting KSA Board Chair Lee McGuire and Board Members Tony Clark and Jesse Baerkahn)
For two decades, Kendall Square in Cambridge has boomed on the magic of the “bump.” The chance encounter. The quick coffee. The collision of brilliant minds in confined space sparks ideas that birth companies and has given rise to Kendall’s not-immodest slogan: “The most innovative square mile on the planet.”…
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