Marc Levy

The nonprofit developer Just A Start has acquired two little-used parking lots near Porter Square in Cambridge and will turn them into affordable housing, according to a letter sent Wednesday by executive director Carl Nagy-Koechlin to city councillors.

Union Comedy seeks to become the area’s third bricks-and-mortar comedy club, founders said Monday in announcing a $50,000 crowdfunding campaign to build a performance space.

A “serious” crash involving multiple cars, in which “at least one vehicle flipped over” has closed both sides of Memorial Drive at Vassar Street.

Public meetings this week look at Alewife urban planning, honoring veterans, net zero transportation, multifamily zoning and the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.

Businesses that found themselves locked out of vendor contracts with city halls in Cambridge and Boston are being welcomed in, with city leaders joining in a ceremony to launch a Boston Cambridge Certification Compact.

Public meetings this week look at testing a four-day workweek, Cambridge’s economic issues, toughening energy-use laws, the impact of zoning and potential redevelopment of a former Anheuser-Busch Co. bottling plant in East Cambridge.

The answers to subway and bus rider problems may be literally at hand: The state’s transit agency is testing an app called MBTA Go that general manager Phillip Eng wants to be “one-stop shopping” for everything from delay notifications to potential refunds for rides not taken.

Delaying a call for slower speeds on Memorial Drive after a bicyclist death didn’t result in the consensus that Cambridge councillors hoped. A policy order meant to give direction to the state passed with a 5-4 vote after an hour of debate.

There are benefits to relocating a business nearby. Porter Square Books expects to take advantage of an unusual one: At 1 p.m. Sunday it will form a human chain to pass boxes of books person to person from the one location to another.

Public meetings this week look at envisioning the North Massachusetts Avenue of 2040, talking about youth well-being and homebuilding in Strawberry Hill now that a family dispute is settled.