New Gateway for Kendall Square: RFPs Are Out!

After working through years of Cambridge zoning discussions and much campus consultation, MIT is advancing a proposal to redesign its Kendall Square entry. The design calls for a lively mix of academic, retail, commercial, and housing with spaces earmarked for new buildings for the MIT Museum, an Innovation Space, and graduate student housing. And there are even green spaces.

Want to know more?

• Read the MIT News coverage of the process
• Find out how graduate student housing fits in the plan.
• Review the East Campus Urban Design Study

In a letter to the community, Provost Marty Schmidt describes the structures that will populate this new space. MIT has issued RFPs for design teams to create building concepts. Stay tuned for more.