New Kendall/MIT station entrance opens
The new red line station entrance opened Monday, April 20
The newly renovated Kendall/MIT outbound T station entrance opened Monday, April 20, after closing June 10, 2024.
Serving the Red Line toward Central, Harvard, and Alewife, the new headhouse replaces a temporary entrance located under Google’s Cambridge office.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority wrote in a statement that the new entrance features “a new glass enclosure with renovated stairs, an escalator, and an additional elevator accessible from the street level.”
The headhouse was renovated and funded by BXP — a business real estate investment firm that has redeveloped over a dozen office buildings in Kendall Square — in coordination with the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority. The renovation cost was about $17 million.
The upgrade comes as development continues in Kendall Square, alongside the opening of Eastern Edge Food Hall and MIT’s billion-dollar Kendall Common project.