Downtown visions
Development corporation begins to sketch out plans for city's core
By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
bkush@telegram.com
WORCESTER — With a vision of new and renovated downtown buildings joined by clean, well-lit public spaces and accessible parking, the Worcester Business Development Corp. has refocused its attention on Worcester's downtown core.
Armed with a new leader, Executive Director Craig L. Blais, and a new direction, the WBDC has cleared several large development projects off its plate.
Over the course of the next several years, the WBDC hopes to:
•Renovate and revitalize the Telegram & Gazette complex between Franklin and Federal streets;
•Double the parking near The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts by building parking decks on the T&G's Federal St. parking lot;
•Build a residential building in the newspaper's parking lot;
•See the building at Main and Franklin streets renovated into a “boutique hotel”;
•And, develop the Salem Street parking lot, now used by patrons of the Worcester Public Library, for recreational use.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120408/NEWS/104089991
The area as it currently is:
I'm a bit confused by the reference to dirth of parking, although it kind of makes sense now that most of the ginormous Commons garage has been torn own to make way for Citysquare.