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The city’s planning department hit a home run—make that a grand slam—with a radical new concept for the Lord Overpass, unveiled tonight at a public meeting at the Lowell Senior Center. City Manager Kevin Murphy opened the program by saying he felt a little like William Shatner because we were…
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Lord Overpass Public Meeting Tomorrow night at 6 pm at the Senior Center at 276 Broadway, the city will hold its second public meeting on the Lord Overpass renovation project. Here’s the notice about the meeting from the city’s Department of Planning & Development: The City of Lowell is planning…
Read More »The following properties were sold last week: March 21, 2016 – Monday 181 Mt Pleasant St for $309,900. Prior sale in 2006 for $290,000 March 22, 2016 – Tuesday 417-419 Stevens St for $340,000. Prior sale in 2014 for $190,000 41 Dundee St for $315,000. Prior sale in 2013 for…
Read More »Motion Responses: Intersection of Princeton Blv and Baldwin St – it’s a state responsibility; the state had no plans to do anything, so the city’s inquiry has prompted them to look at ways to improve it. Councilor Mercier asks about the property at that corner. Manager Murphy says he met…
Read More »The Highlands Neighborhood Association will host a meeting on Monday, March 28th, 2016 at 7:00pm at 59 Lowe’s Way – 2nd Floor. The purpose of this meeting is to review a proposal by Connector Park Equity Partners LLC to construct 240 apartments with 498 parking spaces in an attached garage…
Read More »Amy Bisson watched the Lowell School Committee meeting last Wednesday night and wrote a full report on her website.
Read More »Here are real estate sales that took place last week in Lowell: March 14, 2016 – Monday 9 Nesmith St Unit 9 for 100,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $200,000 214 Thorndike St Unit 10 for $87,500. Prior sale 2016 foreclosure 491 Dutton St Unit 403 for $260,000. New condominium…
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Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Today This afternoon at 2 p.m. at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, I will give a Moses Greeley Parker Lecture on “The Solon Perkins Flag.” The talk is free and the forecasted snow is not supposed to amount to much, so please…
Read More »This coming Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 2 p.m. at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, Lowell, I will be presenting a Moses Greeley Parker lecture. My topic will be the Solon Perkins flag. Perkins is best known for his service as a Union Cavalry officer in…
Read More »Last evening, I joined an overflow crowd at Lowell National Park Visitor Center to hear Harvard history professor Sven Beckert talk about his bestselling book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2015; also a finalist for…
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