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From http://web.fsc.edu/fscnews/index.cfm?detail=780
This is the "Antiques Row" building someone mentioned a few posts ago. This buy a building, demolish it, build something new, is a big thing going on in fitchburg right now. It is cleaning up the city and it realy only is affecting the run down buildings that can not be rehabed. The city even has a line in their budget for tearing down about 5-8 buildings a year.
There is basicly a wasteland of empty parcels behind this building that there was a plan to build something on before the recesion which obvioulsy has fallen through. With this building coming down as well that is going to make a huge parcel just ripe for transit orientated development. The Commuter rail stop is literaly across the street. If the college tears down a building and does not put anythign up in its place, they have a history of atleast planting grass and leavign it open, not fenced off. Great things could come of this, or fitchburg could just end up with it's own version of the filenes hole.
Fitchburg State continues investment in downtown 02/22/2010
Continuing the investment in downtown Fitchburg, the Fitchburg State College Foundation has purchased the building at 161-181 Main St.
The building, which was owned by Gerard A. Martel, is located at Main and North streets, a major gateway to the Fitchburg State College campus and a key downtown parcel that has long been eyed for economic redevelopment. The college will be demolishing the building and will work with city leaders in marketing the property for appropriate development.
?This effort will give Fitchburg State College a seat at the table with a critical parcel in the city's revitalization plans,? College President Robert V. Antonucci said. ?We look forward to working with developers on the best use for this site, one we hope will offer services for our students while enhancing the city's tax base.
The move also strengthens the college's long-standing commitment to building bridges between the campus and the downtown corridor. Over the last several years, numerous parcels have been bought and demolished along North Street, improving the safety and aesthetics of the corridor. The Recreation Center on North Street and the Campus Police Station on Clinton Street represent just two of the sizable investments the college has made. Last fall the college also opened the Center for Professional Studies on the first floor of the Intermodal Station on Main Street, across the street from the latest acquisition.
This is the "Antiques Row" building someone mentioned a few posts ago. This buy a building, demolish it, build something new, is a big thing going on in fitchburg right now. It is cleaning up the city and it realy only is affecting the run down buildings that can not be rehabed. The city even has a line in their budget for tearing down about 5-8 buildings a year.
There is basicly a wasteland of empty parcels behind this building that there was a plan to build something on before the recesion which obvioulsy has fallen through. With this building coming down as well that is going to make a huge parcel just ripe for transit orientated development. The Commuter rail stop is literaly across the street. If the college tears down a building and does not put anythign up in its place, they have a history of atleast planting grass and leavign it open, not fenced off. Great things could come of this, or fitchburg could just end up with it's own version of the filenes hole.