What's New & Exciting

• For upcoming community meetings and classes go to the Community Calendar.
• Fifty Five affordable homeownership units are available for sale at several locations in Cambridge, ranging in size from studio to three bedrooms. Applications are due by Monday July 28 at 7:00 P. M. at the Community Development Department office at 344 Broadway, third floor.
• July 19 to August 3 in Inman Square participate in StoryWalk Cambridge, a fun, engaging, community project that promotes reading and outdoor physical activity for kids and families. Activities lead kids and families on a trip through Inman Square and local business storefronts. Visit businesses in search of all the pages in Stephen T. Johnson's book, "Alphabet City". For more information see www.inmansquare.com.
• Cambridge Celebrates Lead Poisoning Prevention Week from July 21 to 24. Several exciting events are scheduled throughout the City, oncluding with the Lead-Free Kids Jamboree at Sennott Park on July 24 from 10:00 A. M. to Noon.
• Learn about homeowner foreclosure prevention resources.
• During the month of August the first time homebuyer workshops will not be offered. Classes will resume in the month of September. Please contact us during the first week of August for more information on September dates.
• Review the Development Log from the first quarter of 2008.
• We have revised our map of Cambridge Public Parks, Playgrounds, and Reservations, which includes a list of facilities at each park, as well as a variety of other useful information. There is also a new Waterplay Map available, with an updated list of waterplay locations throughout the City.
• Test your soil for lead and learn what you can do to make your soil safer. Lead-Safe Cambridge's Safer Soil Program offers information and expertise.
• Attention Cambridge Tenants and Landlords! You may qualify for home improvement services through the Lead-Safe Cambridge Program!
• A variety of resources about biotechnology are available through the Economic Development Division, including the brochure Cambridge Biotech: The Brains of Biotech The Heart of Innovation, a listing of Cambridge's life science companies. In addition, a map of biotechnology company locations throughout the City is available.
• Read the Spring 2008 edition of the Economic Development Division newsletter, with a listing of small business workshops, events and happenings.
• Cambridge was recently ranked one of the best places to live and launch a business by Fortune Small Business. Out of 100 towns that feed and nurture a business, Cambridge ranked 35th. Rankings were based on percentages of new businesses, the area's business friendliness and lifestyle offerings to include arts venues and parks. Federal, state and city statistics and costs were also used to choose the towns that best blended business and pleasure.
• Cambridge is the best walking city in America, with more residents walking to work and more parks per square mile than any other city evaluated, according to a just-released study by Prevention magazine in its April 2008 issue and the American Podiatric Medical Association
• Our detailed map of Cambridge, the only map of the City showing the direction of one way streets, is now available for viewing on line. View the Getting Around in Cambridge Map. Paper copies of the map are available at the Community Development Department office and at City Hall. For a copy of the map as well as bulk orders, contact Rosalie Anders at 617/349-4604.
• Currently, the Cambridge Housing Authority is seeking senior applicants 62 years and older, for studio units available at several locations and is also seeking applicants for the Family Public Housing Program three bedroom First Available waiting list.
• Lead-Safe Cambridge is working with the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers and Cambridge Health Alliance in an effort to educate Portuguese-speaking painters about lead hazards at work. The collaboration has resulted in a Portuguese-language brochure targeting painters as well as an educational window display at the MAPS central office located at 1046 Cambridge Street in Cambridge
• The City of Cambridge and the Henry P. Kendall Foundation have launched a major new energy initiative called the Cambridge Energy Alliance. The initiative will operate as a non-profit organization and will provide services and financing to dramatically increase energy efficiency in Cambridge buildings of all types. In addition, the initiative will assist installations of renewable energy systems and combined heat and power systems where appropriate. Residents, businesses, and others can register their interest on the Cambridge Energy Alliance web site.
• Did you know that the City Hall Annex at 344 Broadway, the location of the Department's office, is a green building? Learn More.This file is in PDF format and requires use of the free Adobe Acrobat viewer.

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