The Cove | Green Street | Worcester

Would have loved to see another high rise in Worcester, guess I'll have to wait.
 
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From the link, the Cove will have only 99 parking spaces for 171 apartments made up of studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units. That ratio of parking to residents in the downtown of a city such as Worcester where a car is a necessity seems problematic. Several Canal district restaurants have recently closed with parking concerns often cited as a contributing reason. What will be the impact when a new resdiential complex with scant parking is opened?
 
New England Born & Raised said:
From the link, the Cove will have only 99 parking spaces for 171 apartments made up of studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units. That ratio of parking to residents in the downtown of a city such as Worcester where a car is a necessity seems problematic. Several Canal district restaurants have recently closed with parking concerns often cited as a contributing reason. What will be the impact when a new resdiential complex with scant parking is opened?
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Idk, if there's anywhere in Worcester where one could conceivably live car-lite or car free, it's the Canal District. I lived there back in the 2010s and had a car, but rarely used it--walked to work and pretty much everything else I needed except for groceries.
 
#bancars said:
Idk, if there's anywhere in Worcester where one could conceivably live car-lite or car free, it's the Canal District. I lived there back in the 2010s and had a car, but rarely used it--walked to work and pretty much everything else I needed except for groceries.
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I can walk to the Canal District, my gym and my office from my home, and have done so time to time
 
This building will have 171 apartments which means a minimum of 171 residents. With many couples living there along with some apartments being two bedrooms, I would expect over 300 total residents. Given I don't think many families will live there, I would think most all its residents would be of driving age range. One parking space for some 3 residents in an area where there are already existing parking issues seems out of whack. While you can walk to many things, most people will still need and have autos.
 
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#bancars said:
Idk, if there's anywhere in Worcester where one could conceivably live car-lite or car free, it's the Canal District. I lived there back in the 2010s and had a car, but rarely used it--walked to work and pretty much everything else I needed except for groceries.
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The groceries problem is a legitimate problem over there. That area is really going to need something like a Whole Foods or Trade Joe's at a minimum in the near future. I really don't think it's realistic to expect people to live car-free in Worcester, the city isn't laid out for it, and getting to the point where it is dense enough in certain areas to support a car-free lifestyle is a huge decade+ project.
 
393b40 said:
The groceries problem is a legitimate problem over there. That area is really going to need something like a Whole Foods or Trade Joe's at a minimum in the near future.
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It's not that there aren't empty or underused lots with adjacent empty lots for parking downtown or in the Canal district. Or if the city wants to get creative:
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