Cambridge stakes over $45 million on a sleek new community arts space

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Cambridge stakes over $45 million on a sleek new community arts space
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It isn’t every day that a city drops $45.5 million to transform an old industrial building into a gleaming new community arts center. But that’s more or less what the city of Cambridge did with The Foundry:

The woodworking shop at The Foundry.

Space is also available at a commercial rate, though community use is supposed to be prioritized. After all, the whole reason for the city taking on the project was to prevent a corporate takeover. “Anything more than 20% use for these commercial uses … would feel like we were failing as an organization,” Navarrete-Rackauckas said.

“You could put a hundred studios here, you know, and rent them out to local artists,” said Cambridge resident Michael Shia, who submitted a proposal along those lines. Instead, The Foundry has eight reservable workspaces in a large open room.

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