Cambridge Innovation Center

Great concept! Seriously… all the people who share work space in the building are awesome. Your office grows with you/​your business. it’s fantastic and affordable. Excellent kitchen snack bars (although the coffee machines tend to be under repair often); and their Venture Café is a fun networking opportunity with real potential.

This such an awesome place.
I believe everyone pretty much understands that. With free Wi-​Fi, conference rooms, fee telephone booths, stocked kitchens on each floor… etc… what’s not to love.
Everyone is nice and it is a very friendly and respectful community of professionals.
People regularly stop by on Thursdays for the Venture Café and many other cool things to check out.
I hop off the train at Kendall, cross the street and I’m here! Doesn’t get better than that!
#thatisall

Wow. What a perfect place for a meeting. Absolutely ideal — facilities top notch in every way, light, airy, drinks and snacks to sustain you, healthy lunch offerings. How could you not create here? Love it!

I’m a client here and I love it, great people running the place, amazing work environment, you are around other people, & businesses who really know what they are doing too. I highly recommend this place!

Great price and an awesome space! Not only is co-​working a great way to get out of the house or coffee shop, it’s also really nice to be around other entrepreneurs. C3 is a nice big, open co-​working space, which is open 24 hours. As a resident, you have access to beautiful conference rooms, free coffee, tea, and snacks, printing, and work space. I moved in soon after they opened the space, and really enjoyed working here. There are always good events happening throughout the week. McCarter & English has a free series on topics of interest to entrepreneurs and the Venture Café meets on Thursdays. There are also ping pong tables and an N64! I’ve heard a rumor that they are supposed to be getting a pool table, but it hasn’t materialized yet …

You have to think of CIC as a luxury hotel for startups. It is a high end space with good infrastructure and very nice support staff. Which does come with a price (like anything in Kendall Square). Their rates are also going up after the new year (though to be fair, they have not raised them for years).
To some living in Hilton hotel makes sense, to some it does not. It is all about where you place the value.

This place is awesome. Friendly people, comfortable chairs (Aerons, for gods sake), a fully stacked kitchen, speedy internet, printers, conference rooms available to everyone.
If you’re from the startup scene you will find yourself at home here.
Conveniently located on Kendall Square, there are lots of places to have lunch around.

Every time you say «Cantabrigian,» God resurrects a kitten. True fact.
Cambridge is dense and varied enough that it feels a lot bigger than its 100,000-ish people, but it’s small enough that you can walk across town if you feel like it. You can go from neighborhoods of WASP blue-​blood to old-​school Portuguese to Haitian immigrants to Asian students, all in an hour’s walk.
I actually appreciate having all the students around: it means that you can be at a bar, or on the T, or at the laundromat, and hear the latest developments in science and technology. But I do wish Harvard and MIT would have a freshman class on how to cross the street properly.
This was the first place in the US to issue a same-​sex marriage license (suck on that, San Francisco). That happened in 2006, and the sky still hasn’t fallen. Actually, the city’s got one of the lowest property tax rates in the Commonwealth, low unemployment, and AAA-​rated municipal bonds.
I won’t live here forever, but for now, I like it.

It’s a nice place to live

This place deserves 5 stars because I just like being around here for no apparent reason. Headphones and a cup of tea or coffee and this beautiful place. I recently moved here from California and this place is beautiful in its own different way.

If you are starting a business or working on your own, C3 (Cambridge Coworking Center) is a great shared workspace to consider. I was one of the first few people to join when it opened a couple of months ago, and so far I really like the other people who’ve joined after. Most are working on new companies. C3 is managed by the same guys who run the Cambridge Innovation Center, so everything works, and the price is definitely right.

I rent space from the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) for my business and really couldn’t be more pleased with the overall experience. I don’t have to commit to a long term lease since they have month-​to-​month contracts. They have many high-​end shared conference rooms that are well equipped with everything from comfortable chairs, to ceiling mounted projectors with an in house tech support team (rooms fit from 2 to 50). Since I’ll probably be Unilocaling about a lot of restaurants in the near future, it’s worth noting that they have a kitchen on every floor that is very well stocked and always clean. Add in the phenomenal Kendall Square location and it’s cool interior design and it’s the perfect place for my business.

Love, Love, LOVE Cambridge!!!
Honestly, I get out of the city altogether (skiing, hiking, road trips in the surrounding states) more often than I cross the Charles to Boston. I have everything I need, and I can walk in under 30 minutes to all of it.
I’m not knocking Boston. It’s the city I always wanted to live in. Most people’s NYC if you’re money enough, but I’m just plain rad and love my Boston. Cambridge, however, was the unexpected surprise that I’ve fallen in LOVE with!

They designated January 25^th «Junot Diaz Day»! ‘Nuff said.

For my 255^th review (I should point out that this started as my 250^th, then my 251^st, and then onwards…), I’m going to review the place I used to live (I gave 200 to the place I now live). From September 1, 2006 until August 31, 2007, I lived in the bustling hamlet of Cambridge. Since September ’06, I’ve also had the pleasure of working in this interesting city.
What to think? I mean, it’s an eclectic place, with a panoply of different squares covering each of the different sections of the city.
–Kendall is the Technological center, a little boring when it comes to entertainment, but the bustling hub of MIT and the pharmaceuticals. It is where I work, and while it isn’t perfect, it does have its charm in the MIT-​styled hacks and areas around the Square. And it’s near Cambridgeside, what with its mall and other good fun places.
–Central is much more eclectic: more bohemian and city-​like than its neighbors to the north and south, and yet still fitting into the Cambridge atmosphere. Being that this is where I lived for my year, I know this place best: a lot of good decent bars and event locales (People’s Republik, The Field, Phoenix Landing, and Middle East all come immediately to mind), and a lot of interesting character emanating from the different parts of the Square.
–Inman is the disconnected square, apart in its lack of a T stop, and at the same time still connected via buses and its relatively close proximity to Harvard/​Central/​Kendall/​Somerville. With its eclectic restaurants and places, it’s adds a different flavor to the city.
–Harvard Square is the central Cantabridgian location. It’s got charm, it’s got glitz, it’s got a lot of college students. Oh, and Berryline, a JP Licks that has fake grass on its walls, and lots of common areas. And some school that apparentely the aforementioned college students go to.
–Porter. Porter’s got that weird turning art thingie, the massive staircase in the T station, and everything else that makes it a bustling square and haven for those people that like having a supermarket nearby. I never actually lived or regularly hung out in Porter, so I have less to say about it.
All in all, Cambridge is a great place. It’s spread out, made up of different eclectic places, and is a nice place to live. Yay for Cambridge.