Feedback loop is a good way of putting it.<p>Yeah, I remember when the area beyond Tech Square or so was basically &quot;there be dragons here.&quot; There was a lot of, shall we say, underutilized land from Cambridge&#x27;s day as an eastern Detroit a fair chunk of which MIT owned but hadn&#x27;t developed.<p>I would walk to Kendall when I was an undergrad but I thought of that as being totally disconnected from where the long-gone Lechmere was.