How NASA nearly took over Kendall Square, pushing out manufacturers before plans fell apart

Cambridge’s City Council committed 29 acres within Kendall Square on July 27, 1964, to build a $60 million electronics research center for NASA. After five years of extensive demolition, resident and business displacements, design development and partial construction, the project was halted, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration pulled out of the plan completely in December of 1969.

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