The Massachusetts State Treasurer s Office of Economic Empowerment Partners With Money Experience To Offer Free Financial Literacy Course To Local Community Colleges
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Massachusetts State Treasurer s Office of Economic Empowerment (OEE) has partnered with Money Experience, the innovative edtech company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to offer a free financial literacy course to 22 community colleges throughout the state. Participating colleges will receive access to Money Experience s Essentials course, which will be available for a classroom setting or in a self-paced virtual format.
Office of the State Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts
A 25,000-square-foot office building in Framingham that formerly housed the drugmaker Genzyme has sold for $3.2 million.
The buyer is a limited liability corporation, called 11 Pleasant Street Connector, LLC, which is registered in Palm Springs, Fla. The registered manager of that entity is Kirill Vesselov, who is CEO of Haven Health Management, which is also based in Palm Springs, Fla.
It was sold by Fafard Commercial Real Estate of Milford. The sale closed March 15. The 1.6-acre site at 9-11 Pleasant Street Connector was last assessed by the City of Framingham at roughly $3.3 million.
The office building at 9 and 11 Pleasant Street Connector is one of a few MetroWest office buildings that Genzyme has left in the past few years, along with 1 Research Drive in Westborough. An adjacent building at 15 Pleasant Street Connector that Genzyme left in 2012 was bought by U-Haul for $4.4 million in 2018 for a storage facility.
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A key portion of MIT s campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in East Cambridge where students, residents, and tech employees scurry around in between classes, meetings, and meals. Where are they all going? Is there a way to make sense of this daily flurry of foot traffic?
In fact, there is: MIT Associate Professor Andres Sevtsuk has made Kendall Square the basis of a newly published model of pedestrian movement that could help planners and developers better grasp the flow of foot traffic in all cities.
Sevtsuk s work emphasizes the functionality of a neighborhood s elements, above and beyond its physical form, making the model one that could be used from Cambridge to Cape Town.
Boynton Yards life sciences campus development progresses
Alexander Thompson / somerville@wickedlocal.com
As evidenced by the nine-story lab building nearing completion across the MBTA tracks from Union Square, progress on the Boynton Yards life sciences campus development continues apace.
The building, located at 101 South St. and expected to be finished this summer, is just the first of three labs that present further evidence that the Kendall Square biotech boom is spilling over into Somerville.
However, community members and the developers both say the new development will not be a copy and paste of Kendall Square’s high-density playbook onto the 6.5 acres of Ward 2 that were once home to the Gentle Giant Moving Company and vacant lots.
Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region.
By Jeff Howe
Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe
There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy.
Amara’s Law goes a long way toward explaining our current moment. Futurists have been pronouncing the coming ascendancy of “telecommuting,” as it was quaintly called in the age of “Web logs” and CD-ROMs, since the early 1980s. But just because we could didn’t mean we would, and for decades the number of remote workers remained marginal. Human behavior, not technology, ultimately determines the impact of any given innovation. In 2019, according to a study by the Pew Research Center, on