Because of the high demand for space in the Cambridge Industrial Research Center, firms desiring temporary quarters until the new Center is built can use space in the now vacant Lever Brothers buildings.

Gerald W. Blakely, Jr., President of Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes, a Boston development firm which is cooperating with M.I.T. in constructing the Center, announced this decision to Cambridge's leading businessmen and political leaders at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday.

This group also saw sketches, plans, and a model of the Center, to be built on a 14-acre tract adjacent to M.I.T. and occupying part of the old Rogers Block.

Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, expressed "great confidence in this city" and said that it is "on the threshold of a significant new advance in creating an even greater and better and more benign civic environment here."

Dr. Killian said that a desire to reverse the "obsolescence and decay in our cities" helped spur the decision to build the Center.