What's going up: New offices and bigger food halls

The CambridgeSide mixed-use development, formerly the CambridgeSide mall, is opening a new "food hall," a collection of eateries formerly referred to as a food court.

• 14 stalls will fill the CanalSide Food + Drink with familiar counters like anoush'ella, Caffé Nero, DalMoros Fresh Pasta To Go and Sapporo Ramen.
• 💭Deehan's thought bubble: Courts are fancier than halls. But food halls are fancier than food courts for some reason. Under the Scooby Doo villain mask, I think this is just a food court at a mall.

Developer Rafi is cutting back on plans to expand its Somerville Ave. properties into a humongous campus.

• Instead of 9-to-16-story towers, Rafi is looking at much shorter buildings that include housing.