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...whether you are trying to maximize the tax base and revenue in the City or jobs for Cambridge residents--they're not compatible in every instance," City Planning Department Director Robert A. Bowyer '56, said at the first hearing. Under questioning from Councillor Saundra Graham, Bowyer added that the CRA had opted more to raise the tax base in its proposal...
...jobs that will be created by the CRA's proposal for the Triangle are largely white-collar, professional, and technical, but Rowland says his agency will seek blue-collar industries for the Quadrangle, "if at all possible...
Community groups, in turn, have little confidence in the CRA's efforts. They point to the 94 businesses and 2750 jobs the Authority has already displaced from the property preparatory to development. "If you go back over the past 15 years and look at what they've done to Kendall Square and the companies they've closed, it shows little commitment to blue collar jobs," Darlene Gondola of Hard Times says...
...CRA contends that it is impossible to predict what effect the Kendall Square proposal will have on the surrounding neighborhood and the Planning Department report likewise laments that there are "too many variables" to consider...
...CRA officials term such a plan impractical and say that developers have not shown any interest in low density housing. "Low-income housing belongs in the neighborhoods, not in a non-residential area like Kendall Square," Remer says...