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The Birthplace Of Ideas
It is no mere coincidence that Cambridge, which helped create American democracy with the country's first army, also has cultivated more U.S. presidents and Nobel laureates than any other city. Throughout its nearly four centuries, the city has been an incubator of dynamic ideas in government, in science and the arts, and in business. Many of the ideas and the leaders produced in Cambridge have taken root elsewhere, stimulating ever widening growth. But many have stayed in Cambridge, or returned to Cambridge, which is why the city today is unparalleled for the quality of its enterprises, the potential of its work force, and the opportunities it offers all its residents.
In sum, Cambridge is 5,300 businesses and more than 100,000 residents in a 6.5 square mile area—few places on earth can equal it for energy, imagination, and potential.
"There are some things we take for granted in Cambridge and that make it the most diversely civilized city in all the land. Here people of widely different ethnic, language, religious, and social commitment live peacefully, agreeably together with great mutual regard and without anyone giving much thought to the matter. What elsewhere too often is a source of tension is here accepted and enjoyed. So it will remain."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Economist and Author, Harvard University
An ideal climate for business development
- Over 12,000,000 square feet of commercial/ industrial real estate
- Over $200 million in infrastructure investment in the last ten years
- Largest concentration of biotechnology companies on the East Coast
- More than 5,000 companies in 6.5 square mile area
- 30.1% of the workforce has a professional or graduate degree
- Sixty Nobel laureates and counting
- More bookstores per capita than any other city in America
- 448 restaurants, representing the cuisine of thirty cultures
- 337 acres of public space, including 67 playgrounds and parks
- Site of the Head of the Charles Regatta, one of the world's premier rowing competitions
- Just across the river from Boston, home of the Pops and the 2004 and 2007 World Champion Red Sox
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