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PIUG 2008 Boston Biotechnology Meeting

Thursday, February 14, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Genzyme Corporation
500 Kendall Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
+1 (617) 252-7500

Travel Information

Directions to Genzyme ( , )
About Kendall Square
Area Restaurants in and Around Kendall Square

From the Expressway North/South

Take the exit for Storrow Drive.
Follow Storrow Drive to the Kendall Square/Government Center exit.
Follow the signs for Kendall Square, which will send you across the Longfellow Bridge and into Cambridge.
After crossing the river, take a right at the first set of lights onto Third Street.
Turn right onto Kendall Street. The parking garage is on your right.

From the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90 Eastbound)

Take the Mass Turnpike East to Exit 18 (Allston/Cambridge).
Follow signs toward Cambridge/Somerville. The Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel will be on your right.
At the traffic light take a right onto Storrow Drive. Do not cross the river.
Take the Kendall Square/Government Center exit off Storrow Drive.
Follow the signs for Kendall Square, bearing left around the rotary and across the Longfellow Bridge into Cambridge.
After crossing the river, take a right at the first set of lights onto Third Street.
Turn right onto Kendall Street. The parking garage is on your right.

From Logan Airport

Leave your terminal and follow the EXIT signs.
Once you are away from the terminal buildings and on the exit road, get into the middle lanes. The left lane will exit for the Mass Transit T Station.
Follow signs for Route 93. Take the next left exit for Route 93 and the Sumner Tunnel.
Stay to the left, pay $2.00 toll, continue in left lane for Route 93 North.
At end of the tunnel go up the ramp for Route 93 North. Stay in the right lane, you'll exit soon.
Take Exit 26 Storrow Drive/Somerville/Cambridge. This is a long exit ramp that ends in merging with traffic on the right. Get into the right lane.
Take the exit for Causeway Street/Cambridge.
At the light take a left, getting in the right-hand lane.
Go under the overpass and take a right, passing the Museum of Science.
At the first working light, take a left and you will see signs for Kendall Square.
At the second light take a right onto Binney Street.
At the second light, take a left onto Third Street.
Turn left onto Kendall Street. The parking garage is on your right.

From the "T" (MBTA Mass Transit)

Take the Red Line to the Kendall Square stop. When you exit the station, you will be on Main Street.
Walk East - towards Boston - and you will see a traffic light at the corner of Broadway and Third Street.
Cross at the intersection and walk down Third Street.
Take your first right onto Kendall Street. Genzyme Center is the first building on the left.

Shuttle Service

The Wave is a complimentary shuttle bus that runs between the Kendall/MIT T-stop, the Kendall Movie Complex (right outside the square) and the Cambridge Side Galleria. This is a convenient and dependable shuttle.
The Charles River Transportation Management Association is currently developing a North Station shuttle. This shuttle will run from the Kendall/MIT station to North Station. This service is expected to be on line by the end of November.

Public Parking

Directions to One Kendall Square Garage

From I-93 South - Take exit 28 (Cambridge/Storrow Drive) and bear to the right. Take a left at the lights and stay in the right lane. At the next set of lights make a right onto Nashua Street. The Museum of Science will be on your left. Take a left onto Land Blvd (at the second set of lights). Take a right off of Land Blvd. onto Binney Street. Follow the signs for Cinema Parking to the One Kendall Square Garage.

From Memorial Drive East - Take Memorial Drive to Land Blvd. Take a left off of Land Blvd onto Binney St. Follow the signs for Cinema Parking to the One Kendall Square Garage.

From Storrow Drive West - Take Kendall Square exit onto to Cambridge Street. Follow signs to Kendall Square. Go over the Longfellow Bridge into Cambridge this becomes Broadway St. Take a right onto Third St then a left onto Binney St. Follow the signs for Cinema Parking to the One Kendall Square Garage.

Other Parking Facilities nearby - Technology Square Parking Garage, Cambridge Center Garage

For reference - Kendall Square is surrounded by the following streets: to the North is Binney Street, to the East is Fulkerson Street, to the South Broadway & Hamshire St and to the West is Cardinal Medeiros Ave.

About Kendall Square

Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Main Street, Broadway, Wadsworth Street, and Third Street. It is more recently famous for the number of biotechnology and information technology firms which have chosen to locate there, lured by the proximity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus on the south side of Main Street.

Kendall Square has been an important transportation hub since the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1793, which provided the first direct wagon route from Boston to Cambridge. The area became a major industrial center in the nineteenth century, and by the beginning of the twentieth century was home to distilleries, electric power plants, soap and hosiery factories, and the Kendall Boiler and Tank Company (from which the square takes its name). When the Longfellow Bridge was opened in 1907, it included provisions for a future rapid-transit subway link to Harvard Square and Boston (now the Red Line); Kendall Station opened in 1911. MIT moved to its new Cambridge campus, located south of Kendall Square between Main Street and Massachusetts Avenue in 1915.

Kendall Square is frequently confused with One Kendall Square, an office complex in redeveloped factory buildings about 1 km west at the intersection of Broadway and Hampshire Street.

Area Restaurants in and around Kendall Square

The Blue Room
One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Asian-accented Mediterranean cooking using wood burning grill with fine wine selection.

Legal Seafood
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
5 Cambridge Center Corner of 6th and Main
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Polcari's
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Polcari’s Italian American Restaurant and Entertainment Complex is located at 300 Tech Square at Kendall Square, Main Street, Cambridge

Cambridge Brewing Company
Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
One of the original brewery - restaurants in this country. This adventuresome spirit also plays out in our food where you will find exceptional burgers and creative pizzas alongside contemporary American offerings and the freshest seafood.

OLEANA
134 Hampshire St
Cambridge, MA
The cuisine centers on Arabic influenced foods of the Mediterranean with a strong leaning towards Turkish.

Tommy Doyle's Pub & Restaurant
1 Kendall Sq Ste 100
Cambridge, MA 02139-1562
(617) 225-0888

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