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Start-ups squeezed out of Kendall Square

Neighborhood’s cachet making it too pricey

Increasingly the start-ups and young companies that helped make Kendall Square a fulcrum of the region’s innovation economy are either being priced out of the crowded district by soaring rents. So young companies are forced to choose between either paying up for less than ideal space, or move and miss out on the culture and cachet that makes Kendall so special in the business world.

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