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I've removed several entries (including a few that I originally added) which were redlinks. At this point, any company that doesn't already have an article probably isn't a "major business". I'm also not sure why Vertex is listed. Have they moved from Fort Washington? 121a0012 23:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clean-up. I've slightly changed it to "Notable local entities" since some of the entries listed weren't true "businesses" in the sense. E.g. the Federal John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center just off Third Street. That isn't really a business. Nor was the W3C. CaribDigita (talk) 19:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Would it be fair to call Cambridge Center a subdivision of the current Kendall Square area? Overtime the area has change. Things used to be pretty wide open along Third Street, (where the Genzyme Building is), and the large open area around the Federal Transportation area. A few of the smaller 1-4 story buildings buildings that remain along Main Street are now being torn down and are being replaced by taller say ~8-10 story ones that take up larger footprints. So now these 'boundaries' that once existed have largely been erased. Even where the historic Kendal buildings are (Near the Kendal Cinema, and behind the Amgen Building), is now abutting "Cambridge Center" just across the train tracks and street. This boundary is indistinguishable unless you've been in Cambridge for a couple decades now and recall how it *used* to be. To me Cambridge appears now as a division of Kendall Square. So it made me wonder if Cambridge Center was just a marketing term that came about when that Marriott Hotel went up? The MBTA station in the area has also served to cloud this ideology of an actual "Cambridge Center" as well. Some trains say "MIT Cambridge Center" but the walls of the train station still say "Kendall Square". Plus there already was a "Central" square of Cambridge where the main city government offices were situated. CaribDigita (talk) 16:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
A few rumors about the history of that which would be interesting to track down: -- Beland (talk) 17:30, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
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Currently the article mentions a few specific restaurants in the Kendall Square area, but there are dozens of others. My feeling is that it would be better for the article to mention them all or else to mention none by name. Neighborhood force for good (talk) 12:54, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
The current lede of the article says of Kendall Square that "the "square" itself at the intersection[dubious – discuss] of Main Street, Broadway, Wadsworth Street, and Third Street (immediately to the east of the secondary entrance to the Kendall/MIT subway station)."
This is unsupported and I think it is false. Point Park and the adjoining street intersection is not the "square" of Kendall Square. Kendall Square remains a broad area and there's no one spot in it that is central to the Square.
Any objection to removing it and crafting a better lede? jhawkinson (talk) 17:30, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
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