More places to sit and relax. Entire area needs more shade as well as things to do. It's quite desolate.

The entire area in your proposed PUD is lacking in decent landscaping. More trees everywhere. A narrowing of the broad canal road with more shade would be beneficial to everyone. This entire plaza feels like a parking lot.

phil rinehart
Trees for sure. Also the part of Kendall street that sweeps around (running North) in front of Genzyme could stand to be narrowed (it's a single lane anyway), and the sidewalks on both sides could include parking/dropoff PLUS landscaping. The idea there would be to consider of the sidewalk as a PATH THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE (rather than "a sidewalk with trees as an afterthought"), so you could - visually and conceptually - landscape the entire area FIRST, THEN add a path and cut-throughs as needed.

Given the limited information presented, here are some initial comments: 1) Housing should be include on site. This project is in the heart of Kendall Square and should promote non-transit housing 2) Historic Preservation for the Broad Canal is underwhelming. The canal is mostly fine and perhaps efforts should be made to provide more connections along the Charles. There is talk about a similar boardwalk being necessary behind the Museum of Science to connect the Charles 3) Project increases parcel size about 50% without any real justification 4) Given the Broad Canal Road is part of PUD, consider closing road to cars or use as a shared street to provide a plaza between two sides of the street. Similar work has been done in Harvard square. 5) Curious how no new parking will be required to accommodate such a large upsizing. 6) Open space should not be “enhanced”, it should be increased. 7) Connectivity. North South connectivity would be best served with open air, wide corridors, not internal atrium.

Beautification in the form of landscaping, plants, new trees, etc.

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Haydée Casellas
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Daylen Smith
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Tami Lieberman
Ice cream shop. Convenience store.

May Conner
A CVS or Walgreens would be fantastic for this area. There is no accessible convenience store in the Kendall area. A restaurant would be great too! Lots of Biogen employees there that need lunch.

Mark Herstein j
How about a permanent Farmers Market in lieu of the seasonal one! This would include stalls from local and specialty vendors similar to Eataly or Haymarket

With all the new tenants, perhaps a restaurant, bar, diner, theater, comedy club, art gallery, music venue with practice space. Anything that would be open past the usual 9am-5pm (no more coffee shops, banks, cell phone stores) to provide some life after work. Kendall square seems closed after 5pm.

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local businesses that will sustain after hour use. Less coffee shops and banks.

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Kelley Brown
The existing green space is designed to hide a parking garage. The new open space should support street-facing retail and restaurant uses. Don't retain the existing configuration just because it exists now.

Jeff Byrnes
A series of smaller retail locations, aimed at providing tenancy opportunities for new retail businesses, instead of established players.

Laurie Crist
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Paul F
Let’s rethink the amount of parking please. This is a transit rich area and Boston properties shouldn’t be subsidizing drivers at the expense of the planet.

Maximize open space and pay careful consideration to promoting this as a community and not just a 9-5 location. Also building heights should reflect the area better.

A restaurant/bar. Something that would be open past 5pm to help make this a community and less of a lunch stop. Too many coffee shops and banks already.

Multiuse- combination basketball and tennis court. Cambridge lacks in many accessible tennis courts.

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