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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Interesting that Middlesex (Cambridge, Somerville, Lowell, etc) beats out Suffolk (Boston).
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This makes sense though. Suffolk is just Boston, plus Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea (all pure inner-ring bedroom cities). Middlesex has nearly double the population, and is home to almost the entire Boston massive life sciences / biotech sector, and the Rt 128 belt north of the city is home to lots the the area's tech. Boston proper is home to most the the region's finance and services industries.
Suffolk County is all of 58 sq miles. Middlesex is 818 sq miles. Dallas County, by comparison, is 873 sq miles - almost exactly the same size as Suffolk and Middlesex combined.
The most valuable commercial real estate on the East Coast outside of Manhattan is not in downtown Boston, but in Kendall Square in Cambridge.