Worcester Infill and Developments

This renovation on Millbury Street came out nice. On a side note, the streets in that area are littered with trash in the winter.

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themissinglink said:
I'm responding to this here because my comment belongs in this thread more than it does the Providence one.

Worcester has improved a lot from where it was a couple of decades ago, but it still obviously has a long way to go. Worcester has great bones and it could (and hopefully will eventually) be a fun, vibrant, walkable city. But so many of those empty lots downtown need to be filled in for it to happen. It sucks that development in Worcester is progressing so slowly, I hope that the pace picks up soon.

I'd love to someday see a new residential or hotel tower with ground-floor retail (and no surface parking) in downtown Worcester, but I'm obviously not getting my hopes up for that happening anytime soon.
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Yea I agree, with such a severe housing shortage in the state and soooo many empty lots everywhere in the city worcester should be exploding right now. Worcester does have good bones and it could be a pretty nice city. Theres definitely more development going on now than at any point in my lifetime, but it should be sooo much more. They really have or maybe had* (at this point with how crazy the economy and country is going), a golden opportunity to really revitalize the city. I really hope that the window doesnt close again with interest rates going back up, construction costs going up, tarriffs etc..

I’m not really up on worcester politics, but I feel like Ive heard nothing at all about worcester trying to change regulations that make housing hard to build. Boston is proposing a new zoning reform every other week right now, is worcester doing any of this? If not thats a huge missed opportunity. They should be at the forefront of this because they really could use the investment and if its a pain in the ass to build and the city doesnt have a whole lot going for it compared to other cities in the state why would developers choose to build there? Worcester should be doing twice as much work as a global city like boston to make it easy to build there. I hope they are and I just havent heard it.
 
The city could do more in terms of incentives. They use TIF’s to incentivize development, but
construction costs are the same as in Boston and the materials also cost the same, so the ROI per unit is much much lower for the developer.
 
It's kind of sad to see what was once a magnificent estate fall into ruin and replaced by what appears to be an apartment complex.
 
I think our cities would be a lot healthier if we weren't so attached to individual structures and could build and rebuild at will. No one thinks Japan and its cities are devoid of history for doing this and they have the benefit of relatively rational housing costs
 
(Sigh) my comment wasn't about the need for housing but it you want to jump on that soapbox, then so be it.
 
Crazy people: We shouldn't build anything new, ever. We should have left this decrepit manor rot in place. Or spent millions to turn it into a museum.

Other crazy people: We shouldn't feel the need to preserve anything, ever. Absolutely nothing was lost here. Aesthetics don't matter. Huzzah for grey, boxey 5-1s.

Normal people: We should preserve some nice things, but also let new stuff get built. It would have been nice to preserve part of this, but the time to do that was decades ago. Too bad the apartments that are replacing it aren't more inspiring to look at.
 
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If feasible, it could have housed the offices, gym, and common spaces of the retirement community.

It’s not that Worcester is running out of free buildable space
 
citydweller said:
(Sigh) my comment wasn't about the need for housing but it you want to jump on that soapbox, then so be it.
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I just think we preserve quite enough old stuff in that neighborhood. I'm all got preservation but not at the expense of that much unused already developed land
 
ctsketch said:
I just think we preserve quite enough old stuff in that neighborhood. I'm all got preservation but not at the expense of that much unused already developed land
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Agree, this isn't a facade worth preserving. The inside would have been gutted to hell for modern use and you'd just be looking at another slightly old wood building. Just because it has columns does not make it interesting!
 
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