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Hamilton Canal District The big news at Tuesday’s City Council meeting was the announcement by City Manager Kevin Murphy that three developers responded to the city’s Request for Qualifications for the Hamilton Canal District. Watermark Environmental, which now is housed in the Wannalancit Mills, wants to build its corporate headquarters…
Read More »Amy Bisson took advantage of yesterday’s mild temperatures to linger at Boarding House Park. She shares her thoughts and the photo below: Yesterday’s spectacular late-October weather inspired a walk later in the evening. The normally cool temperatures of Autumn had been pushed away for a day and the moon was…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas. Pawtucket Prism is one of Lowell’s public art pieces. It overlooks the Concord River and the Pawtucket Canal and is located alongside the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.
Read More »On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor community room, I will be hosting a Lowell Walks Retrospective. The purpose of this event is to review the very successful Lowell Walks program of this summer and to begin planning for our 2016 Lowell…
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Lowell City Council The big news from a very brief city council meeting last Tuesday was that the city and the Lowell Regional Transit Authority have reached a tentative agreement that will allow land controlled by the LRTA on YMCA drive to be used for the parking of buses that…
Read More »Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things. Feel…
Read More »I’ve always wondered about the wooden walkways and bridges between sections of mill buildings. Were they intentionally built on the slant to accommodate rolling materials from place to place? Or is the casual look a result of trying to connect two buildings that weren’t necessarily built to be connected? With…
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Lord Overpass The city council’s traffic subcommittee held a meeting on the Lord Overpass project Tuesday night before the regular city council meeting. There was a presentation by members of the city’s planning department and an opportunity for public input but no one from Mass Highway or the company doing…
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