State, Cambridge residents tussle over fate of asbestos-filled former jail and courthouse

Cambridge Day reports some developers are actually interested in the decaying Middlesex County courthouse and jail, and that state officials will not require anybody who actually buys the thing to lop off more than half the floors, as demanded by some nearby residents. Whoever buys the structure will have to come up with a plan to remove asbestos; residents worry a developer would come in, start work, then stop work and leave them with something like the Filene's Hole across the river, only taller.