In 1959, a glittering new amusement park beckoned just off Route 128 in Wakefield. Billed as the “Disneyland of the East,” Pleasure Island had it all: themed restaurants, mock gunfights, and ...

Pleasure Island is now a place of work. These days, Edgewater Office Park is a series of tall, shiny buildings containing dozens of rows of cubicles filled with people just doing their 9-to-5 jobs.