Kendall Square

42°21′44″N 71°5′3″W / 42.36222°N 71.08417°W / 42.36222; -71.08417 Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.[1] It also refers to the broad business district east of Portland Street, northwest of the Charles River, north of MIT and south of Binney Street.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kendall Square Area, 1903; George W. and Walter S. Bromley, Civil Engineers

Kendall Square has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet", in reference to the high concentration of entrepreneurial start-ups and quality of innovation which have emerged in the vicinity of the square since 2010.[2][3]

The neighborhood has approximately 50,000 people who work in the area on a daily basis and a growing residential population.[4]

  1. ^ See sign in photo at https://www.technologyreview.com/s/540206/the-past-and-future-of-kendall-square/ Archived 2019-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Kendall Square Initiative". MIT. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Lelund Cheung. "When a neighborhood is crowned the most innovative square mile in the world, how do you keep it that way?". Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Archived from the original on August 15, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  4. ^ Logan, Tim (2017-12-14). "Booming Kendall Square will get a long-sought supermarket as MIT projects advance". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2017-12-15.