Cambridge Discovery Park — Local services in Cambridge

Cambridge Discovery Park (CDP) has expressed that they are no longer community oriented through their recent actions of completely gating off nearby apartment buildings from their office park, the nearby Blue Bikes station, lit pedestrian paths, park, trails, and Alewife T access.

Why is this bad? young children are now forced to walk directly alongside a highway with no guardrails folks who perform shift work now have to walk alongside a dark, unlit, highway at night with no safety phones it is now twice as far to access the only Blue Bike station that was once near the apartment buildings this is a fire hazard - we cannot physically scatter the necessary 200 yards away from the building, as there is a fence/closed gates surrounding three sides of the building, and a highway on the fourth. this breaks the community tie between work and play as employees who live and work in CDP no longer have the cohesiveness that being near CDP brings

CDP even went as far as posting a "Private Property No Trespassing" sign on these gates. Really? So, for all of those folks who work at CDP, they are technically trespassing if they want to go to work without walking alongside an unlit highway?

On their website, CDP boasts "5 new residential complexes within walking distance". Well you've just alienated thousands of residents, including many of your own tenant employees, in two of them.

CDP/Bulfinch - please listen to your neighbors. Open the gates and build, rather than shatter, the community.

I do not recommend doing business with Cambridge Discovery Park or Bulfinch....

Cambridge Discovery Park has closed itself off to its community. The complex is next to three apartment complexes, and the Park advertises that they are just steps away from those communities. But the building managers at Bullfinch have closed and locked gates that allow anyone to walk through the Park. People must walk on a sidewalk that is just feet away from a dangerous highway to get to work at the Park, or to travel past the Park to local areas. Why has the Park closed itself off, endangering the lives of nearby residents and creating animosity in the area? Hard to say - no signs have been posted, or warnings issued for any actions. Perhaps the Park's owners at Healthpeak Properties wanted to save some money for any trash collection issues caused by people using their trash cans. Though one would think that a community-focused company like Healthpeak Properties would not support such an anti-community behavior just to save a...

As others have noted, Cambridge Discovery Park has acted in an incredibly petty, unprofessional and un-neighborly manner in locking all of the pedestrian gates surrounding the park without any prior forewarning to apartment buildings located in CDP, even locking the final gate after promising it would remain open. In locking these gates, they've blocked access to the only Blue Bikes station within a few minute walk from the apartments, doubling the commute time to the T. In addition, their actions have blocked access to a safe, convenient walk to the T through Acorn Park - now residents have no option but to walk an unsafe, unlit route along the highway to access the T. Bulfinch, which manages CDP, has acted to divide the community and eliminate the cohesive environment between work, home, and local parks, and I would not recommend living, working, or doing...