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Master Plan a Vision—Renewed HamiltonHamilton CanalCanal DistrictDistrict Master Plan A Vision—Renewed September 2008 architecture Credits and Acknowledgements Executive Summary 1 Introduction [p.8] Site Introduction Existing Conditions Project Goals 2 Development Visioning Process [p.16] 3 Development Vision [p.24] A Vision Renewed: Master Plan for the Development of the Hamilton Canal District General Site Plan Parcel Development Concepts: Use and Form Circulation Plan Open Space Plan: The Public Realm Sustainable Design Historic Preservation 4 Economic Development Impact [p.52] Financial / Market Feasibility Economic Impact / Job Creation Strategies for Neighboring Properties 5 Project Phasing and Financing [p.66] Phasing Plan Development Finance Strategy 6 Transportation and Civil Engineering Concepts [p.72] Transportation Off-site Improvement Plans Civil Engineering Grading and Utility Plans TABLE OF CONTENTS City of Lowell Mayor Edward “Bud” Caulfi eld City Councilor Kevin Broderick CREDITS AND City Councilor Rodney Elliott City Councilor Alan Kazanjian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSCity Councilor Michael Lenzi City Councilor William Martin, Jr. City Councilor Armand Mercier City Councilor Rita Mercier City Councilor James Milinazzo This Master Plan, and the project, Bernard F. Lynch, City Manager is the product of a public-private Adam Baacke, Assistant City Manager/DPD Director partnership led by Trinity Hamilton T.J. McCarthy, Asst.. City Manager/DPW Commissioner Christine O’Connor, City Solicitor Canal Limited Partnership and the George Proakis, Planning and Permitting Director City of Lowell. James Errickson, Urban Renewal Project Manager Trinity Hamilton Canal Anne Barton, Deputy DPD Director Robert Camacho, Commissioner of Inspectional Services Limited Partnership Chuck Carney, Parking Director Trinity Financial, Inc. Aaron Clausen, Associate Planner Lisa DeMeo, City Engineer ICON architecture, inc. Maria Dickinson, Economic Development Offi cer Epsilon Associates, Inc. Jeffrey Gomes, Transportation Engineer Fort Point Associates, Inc. Daniel Lahiff, Executive Director Water Utility Hemenway & Barnes LLP Kenneth Lavallee, Superintendent of Police, Police Department McPhail Associates, Inc. Brian Leahey, Assistant City Solicitor Meridian Associates, Inc. LZ Nunn, Director of Cultural Affairs & Special Events WilmerHale Theresa Park, Economic Development Director Edward Pitta, Fire Chief, Fire Department Winn Residential Stephen Stowell, Historic Board Administrator Woodland Design Group, Inc. Michael Stuer, Engineering Supervisor, Wastewater Utility Sandy Swaile, Design Planner Patricia Sullivan Talty, Assistant City Solicitor Christine Thomas, Environmental Offi cer Diane Tradd, Chief Design Planner Arthur Trainor, Water Utility Captain John Weber, Fire Department Mark Young, Executive Director Wastewater Utility Kim Zunino, Assistant Historic Board Administrator [4] Contributors A special thank you goes to the over American Textile History Museum Architectural Heritage Foundation/Banc of America CDC 250 community members and other Arts League of Lowell stakeholders who have attended the Vision Canal Place III Condominium Association Sessions and Working Group meetings that Coalition for a Better Acre have led to the creation of this Master Plan. We Cultural Organization of Lowell appreciate your thoughtfulness, creativity, hearty Enel North America, Inc. Finegold Alexander + Associates Architects appetites and constructive criticism. Your ongoing Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce contributions to this redevelopment effort are invalu- JAM Business and Residents Association able. The development team and the City of Lowell John Troy would especially like to thank: Lenzi’s Catering Service, Inc. Lowell Center City Committee Lowell Development and Financial Corporation (LDFC) Governor Deval Patrick Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray Lowell Memorial Auditorium United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy Lowell Regional Transit Authority United States Senator John Kerry Lowell Senior Center United States Congresswoman Niki Tsongas Lowell Transitional Living Center Massachusetts State Senator Steven Panagiotakos The Lowell Plan Massachusetts State Representative Thomas Golden, Jr. The Lowell Sun Massachusetts State Representative Kevin Murphy Lower Highlands Neighborhood Association Massachusetts State Representative David Nangle Merrimack Repertory Theatre Merrimack Valley Building Trades Council U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Middlesex Community College Lowell National Historical Park New England Regional Council of Carpenters Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG) Olympos Bakery Robinson & Cole Commonwealth of Massachusetts Ropes & Gray Executive Offi ce of Administration and Finance TEC, Inc. Executive Offi ce of Environmental Affairs TRC Environmental Executive Offi ce of Housing and Economic Development Two Chefs, Inc. Executive Offi ce of Transportation University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Environmental Protection Vollusia, Inc. Department of Conservation & Recreation Watermark Environmental, Inc. Department of Housing and Community Development Western Avenue Studios Division of Capital Asset Management www.jackiedoherty.org Court Facilities Unit www.leftinlowell.com Massachusetts Highway Department www.richardhowe.com Massachusetts Historical Commission A special thank you to: April Anderson, Greg Bialecki, Tina Brooks, D.J. Chairwoman Taya Dixon and Members of the Corcoran, George Duncan, Philip Griffi ths, Brian Martin, Lisa McKee, Andrew Lowell Historic Board O’Brien, Daniel O’Connell, and George Ramirez. Chairman Thomas Linnehan and Members of the Lowell Planning Board A very special thank you to Kendall Wallace. [5] In June 2006, the City of Lowell EXECUTIVE issued a solicitation for a master developer to design, re-zone, market, and redevelop the Hamil- SUMMARY ton Canal District (HCD). After an extensive quali- fi cation process, the Trinity Hamilton Canal Lim- ited Partnership (Trinity) team was selected by the City Hall City to become the Mas- ter Developer of the site. Merrimack St. t. S n tto u D Middle St. t. S k c ttu ha S Larger office / R&D uses Mar frame Dutton Street en- ket St. trance and support ground floor retail. New district park provides Bro a dw focus from Broadway Street a y S New streetscape with a t. 15 entry. view/pedestrian corridor from the NPS Visitors Center to the Swamp Locks. 13 14 16 Canal walk along the north side Signature building at the St. of the Pawtucket Canal. n 12 tto Swamp Lock falls. u ck Canal D ima 11 17 Swamp Locks are reclaimed Merr 8 anal New streetscape circulates s k ket C as an historic open space c c o L awtu P through island aligned with p 8a m feature. a 9 w new & rehabilitated buildings. S 10 g nber 7a Site of the Point Park and Freude Appleton Mills signature building mark the 4 highly visible entry to down- 7 3 6 al 3a 5 Can Historic rehabilitation of the town. ilton Fletcher St. Ham Appleton Mills and the Hamilton Canal 2 Jackson Street extension St. Freudenberg building. allows east/west pedestrian Jackson & vehicular access & great- Potential for a 450-seat er visibility to the district. Re professional theatre. vere St. New Lowell King S 1 t. Selected site of the Lowell Trial Court ex S iddles New extension of the trolley Trial Court to serve as t. M southerly anchor to the de- to the Gallagher terminal. velopment. Complete reconfiguration of South St. the Lord Overpass. ton St. Apple x St. dlese Mid T h o rn d ik e S Favor St t. mer St. Sum t. Grand S ford s St. lm e h C Gallagher Terminal [6] Beginning in December, 2007 Trinity and City staff collaborated on a 9-month, public master planning process of well attended “charrettes” including listening sessions, design sessions and numerous working groups. The process has produced this transit-oriented, mixed-use Master Plan that will ultimately produce tax revenues approaching $4 million per year, strengthen and diversify the existing downtown market, and cre- ate signifi cant employment opportunities. It has the potential to create up to 425,000 SF of commercial / offi ce space, up to 55,000 SF of retail space, and up to 725 units of market rate and affordable housing. This level of redevelopment activity will represent up to $800 million in total development costs and has a goal of producing 400 permanent full time jobs. The most signifi cant urban planning features of this project include: • Use of the southeast corner of the HCD as the site for traffi c interventions include the extension of Jackson Street east the new, $175 million Lowell Trial Court to Fletcher Street across Dutton Street and the reconfi guration • Use of the National Park Service (NPS) parking lots as of the Lord Overpass so that it will be able to handle the pre- taxable commercial land to create a primary entrance to the HCD dicted traffi c increases much better than it currently handles the off Dutton Street at Broadway existing traffi c. • The development of strong pedestrian connections to • A route for an extended trolley system has been the downtown core, the JAM neighborhood, the Gallagher Ter- designed through the HCD to accommodate the trolley’s connec- minal, the Acre neighborhood, and the proposed extensions of tion to the Gallagher Terminal. In addition, the charrette process the NPS canal walk system along the Western Canal and the has renewed public interest in the possibility of transforming
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