What was once hundreds of acres of rail yards and underutilized industrial sites is now the beginning of what could be a blossoming mixed-use community — it just took more than a decade to come together.
Tishman Speyer, Harvard University, and state and local officials celebrated the opening of the university’s Enterprise Research Campus in Allston on Tuesday, marking the completion of the first phase of a 36-acre transformation of one of the largest developable sites in Boston.