Letter to the community on East Campus/Kendall Square design firm selection
The following email was sent to the MIT community today by Provost Martin Schmidt and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz. To the members of the MIT community: We write to provide an update on MIT’s East Campus/Kendall Square planning process. In our July 2014 communication, we reflected on several key initiatives and studies that have guided this effort over the past few years, and shared a proposed site assembly as well an outline of next steps. The East Campus/Kendall Square Gateway area represents a tremendous opportunity to create a vibrant cluster of activity. The blending of an array of uses — including innovation space, housing, childcare, retail, commercial, and space for the MIT Museum — has the unique potential to convey MIT’s and Kendall Square’s unparalleled innovative energy. Now, we have reached a point where architectural teams have been identified and design work, which will build on previous efforts, will commence....