Newburyport Developments

[Smuttynose]

This is Newburyport Crossing, a 160-unit multi-family residential development smack dab across from the Newburyport commuter rail station. The first phase is already open and the second is nearing completion. This development was created on former MBTA-owned land that housed an underutilized surface parking lot. The T declared the land surplus and Newburyport, to its credit, created a Smart Growth zoning district for the area. The development also abuts the Clipper City Rail Trail providing bike/ped access to Downtown.

More of this please. The development is surrounded by one-story industrial buildings so it seems like there's a lot more potential in the area to be had.

 

[#bancars]

This is Newburyport Crossing, a 160-unit multi-family residential development smack dab across from the Newburyport commuter rail station. The first phase is already open and the second is nearing completion. This development was created on former MBTA-owned land that housed an underutilized surface parking lot. The T declared the land surplus and Newburyport, to its credit, created a Smart Growth zoning district for the area. The development also abuts the Clipper City Rail Trail providing bike/ped access to Downtown.

More of this please. The development is surrounded by one-story industrial buildings so it seems like there's a lot more potential in the area to be had.

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Love this project! Took some photos of it last December in a separate thread--maybe mods can merge them?

Newburyport Urbanism

Spent some time in Newburyport today--didn't see a general thread for Newburyport developments or urbanism, so wanted to start one! Mods, feel free to merge or move as appropriate if I missed it! When you get off the train, you are greeted with the sight of some wonderful infill immediately...

archboston.com

 

[stick n move]

Market Landing Park Expansion in Newburyport, Mass., Slated for Summer Finish​

WED JANUARY 03, 2024 - NORTHEAST EDITION #2

“Newburyport, Mass.'s $6 million Market Landing Park construction and expansion project continues to be on schedule as work moves forward on establishing priority park space.

The coastal Massachusetts city's project kicked off last August and is expected to be completed by this summer.

Crews with Acton, Mass.-based Onyx Corp. are converting a number of waterfront parking lots into additional green space flanking the east and west sides of the 4.6-acre site, the Daily News of Newburyport reported Jan. 1. The effort also will feature new park wings and a shared-use path connecting two phases of the Clipper City Rail Trail.

"The park project that's under construction right now is expanding the primary priority park space along the water's edge," explained Andy Port, the project's manager, and planning director of the city of Newburyport, who added that, timewise, everything is proceeding as it should.

"Our plan is to be finished by the May to June timeframe of this [year], and we're on track with that right now."


In speaking with the Daily News, he said the primary aspect of the project is under way and that two additional walkways will be put in at a later date.

"A bike path connection that goes across the central waterfront [will connect] with the boardwalk, so there will no longer be a complete [bike path] gap through the downtown," Port noted.

Jim McCauley, the Ward 5 councilor on the Newburyport City Council and a Market Landing Ad Hoc member, told the Daily News, "On projects like this, they're all always weather dependent. So, I think we're on schedule now. With some good weather, we should be around our completion timeframes."

https://www.constructionequipmentgu...wburyport-mass-slated-for-summer-finish/63501

 

[tysmith95]

You could fit about 100 of these buildings here from the station north to downtown, and considering the price for real estate in Newburyport there would be a bit of developer demand.

This is Newburyport Crossing, a 160-unit multi-family residential development smack dab across from the Newburyport commuter rail station. The first phase is already open and the second is nearing completion. This development was created on former MBTA-owned land that housed an underutilized surface parking lot. The T declared the land surplus and Newburyport, to its credit, created a Smart Growth zoning district for the area. The development also abuts the Clipper City Rail Trail providing bike/ped access to Downtown.

More of this please. The development is surrounded by one-story industrial buildings so it seems like there's a lot more potential in the area to be had.

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[vanshnookenraggen]

Just looking at that, it seems to me that there are a lot of wetland issues with developing around the train station.

 

[Downburst]

Just looking at that, it seems to me that there are a lot of wetland issues with developing around the train station.

Yes, south of the station is mostly wetland and would preclude building there. The station and its parking lots are elevated several feet above the surrounding area to stay dry. The buildings to left are all industrial/commercial and I'd imagine comprise a significant portion of the city's tax base—while I'd love for them to be redeveloped into residential I'm not sure the city would be willing to give that up.

 

[#bancars]

The Fight to Save a Decrepit Pink House by the Sea

The 99-year-old house on Boston’s North Shore is battered and uninhabited. And yet, it is beloved by artists and locals — so much that they helped pause its demolition.

www.nytimes.com