Chelsea Infill and Small Developments

I've been a resident of Chelsea ever since I came to this country in the late 80's from Guatemala. I went to their public schools, worked in many local businesses, and bought property in Chelsea.
Chelsea by no means is the safest nor the nicest place to live, but it has come along way since it's corrupted days of the 80s/90s. With the additions of the FBI, Hotel Chains, Silver Line and many condo project, its only a matter of time for negative people to realize that Chelsea is a different place. Just my two cents.
 
datadyne007 said:
"Moved out long ago" explains it all. You don't know the Chelsea of today.

Shootings are still rare even in Chelsea. The crime here is mainly stabbings & drugs. The same tragic things happen in Charlestown, JP, and Rozzie and that's not stopping anyone from moving there.
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And Eastie! Everyone always forgets Eastie.... [/s]
 
scorpio02150 said:
I've been a resident of Chelsea ever since I came to this country in the late 80's from Guatemala. I went to their public schools, worked in many local businesses, and bought property in Chelsea.
Chelsea by no means is the safest nor the nicest place to live, but it has come along way since it's corrupted days of the 80s/90s. With the additions of the FBI, Hotel Chains, Silver Line and many condo project, its only a matter of time for negative people to realize that Chelsea is a different place. Just my two cents.
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But it will never be the place it was in the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Low crime and virtually no drugs, at least through the 1960's. My friends and I could walk anywhere in Chelsea into the evening without fear....and Chelsea was a low income place back then, just not crime ridden.

People have become desensitized to crime, even when it is all around them.
 
datadyne007 said:
Shootings are still rare even in Chelsea. The crime here is mainly stabbings & drugs. The same tragic things happen in Charlestown, JP, and Rozzie and that's not stopping anyone from moving there.
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Yes, today's Chelsea is not nearly as dangerous as many make it out to be. But it is still objectively one of the most dangerous cities in the Commonwealth. Per the FBI as of 2013, Chelsea had 2.2x as many murders per capita as Boston. I don't have neighborhood-level statistics in front of me, but I would be very surprised if crime were indeed no more frequent in Chelsea than in Charlestown, JP, or Rozzie.

TomOfBoston said:
People have become desensitized to crime, even when it is all around them.
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Nationwide, crime is at the lowest it's been in many decades. There are probably only a small minority of this forum's users who have been alive long enough to see a safer America.
 
According to some stats I saw the murder rate in Chelsea was 13.3 per 100,000. I haven't been able to easily find newer info, but that year was an outlier most of the years before then the murder rate was between 5 and 6 per 100,000 but it varied widely with 0 some years and up to 21 another year. But I would say overall it is only slightly more dangerous than Somerville or JP.
 
One gets the sense most of Chelsea's current spate of new construction is being developed by color-blind 8-year-olds playing with ginormous Legos.
 
itchy said:
One gets the sense most of Chelsea's current spate of new construction is being developed by color-blind 8-year-olds playing with ginormous Legos.
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That should be 5 year olds and duplos.
 
itchy said:
One gets the sense most of Chelsea's current spate of new construction is being developed by color-blind 8-year-olds playing with ginormous Legos.
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I couldnt agree more with your statement, but at the end of the day it could be alot worse. It could still be an old ugly warehouse with a pile of dirt next to it.

I do wish that the project had more of a Assembly row style to it; i hope the city approves a better design on the old Chelsea Clock site.
 
itchy said:
One gets the sense most of Chelsea's current spate of new construction is being developed by color-blind 8-year-olds playing with ginormous Legos.
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You joke about this, but I literally just stumbled across this accidentally on a German architect's website I was looking up...

http://www.architekten-k2.de/projekte/vision/kinder-und-jugendpsychiatrie

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Those buildings will age as well as this kind of thing did:
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(Aka not well) if it's already ugly now it will be ugly in the future.
 
Chelsea Waterfront Vision Workshop, facilitated by MAPC - TONIGHT:

Chelsea Waterfront Vision Plan:

The date for the first public workshop with the community has been confirmed. Thank you all for participating in the doodle poll. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 23 from 6-8pm at the Chelsea Senior Center located at 10 Riley Way. I am attaching the English and Spanish language versions of the public flyer. If you are driving and using GPS, it has been recommended that you use the address of 307 Chestnut Street (the fire station) to avoid being sent to the produce center.

More information is available on our webpage at mapc.org/ChelseaWaterfront.
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