Expansion of life sciences labs in Boston area slows; one Kendall Square building has sat mostly empty for months

Funny to hear talk of an empty building in Kendall Square, like it's such an unheard of thing. It's hard to imagine now, but I remember in the 70s when pretty much the entire of Kendall Square was a wasteland with nothing but old warehouses and a strange diner with a sign that said "closed" all the time, even when it was open. There was also a place called the Terminal Barbershop sitting in the middle of nothing. It was such a surreal sight that a local band called Pastiche wrote a song about it and put out a record of it. One decrepit building had a three line poem in large, block multicolored letters that took up a third of it's crumbling wall. Turns out it was part of a larger poem scattered on walls throughout Cambridge. The whole area had a very otherworldly feel to it. I kind of miss it.