Front Street Breakthrough Changes City Skyline
Monday, May 21, 2012
That is changing in a dramatic way.
Coming Into View
As GoLocalWorcester shows you in photos shot from high atop Sovereign Bank on Main Street and the Worcester Office Tower on Front Street, millions of dollars and years of construction have given way to a breakthrough on Front Street. Once more Union Station, appearing as glorious as ever, has been brought into view from city hall. When all is said and done, you’ll no longer have to navigate the twists and turns coming from the west side. Venturing in from the east, you can say goodbye to the maze of roads that are now the only way to city hall and Main Street.
“Worcester is on the move,” said Ryan Sweeney of Rutland, who works at Harleysville Insurance in Worcester along Front Street. “That mall was just taking up space. The revitalization is on. Print it.”
Upcoming Ceremony
In a joint statement, Petty and Lt. Gov. and former Worcester Mayor Timothy Murray said “Worcester has always been a city of change and rebirth. We must start looking toward the next phase in Worcester’s history.”
Both men called Thursday’s event “an opportunity to reflect on the future of the city.”
'It's Awesome'
Standing outside the Worcester Office Tower during a break from work, Curtis Wright looked over toward the construction area, which is currently cordoned off with cement barriers and high netting, and said, “You know, I had never really thought of it.”
He can, however, see the work and the changing landscape every day from his fourth-floor office.
“I got to watch them take down the glass domes” of the old Worcester Common Outlets, Wright recalled.
Reflecting a bit longer, Wright smiled and said, “It’s kind of exciting.”
“I didn’t even realize it until you just mentioned it,” he said. “That’s awesome. Now you can go straight through. I think it’s awesome.”
A man identifying himself only as Brian D. did Baldwin one better, saying he could remember to back when the area was open in the 1960s.
“I was driving down Front Street the other day and I was looking straight ahead and I said, ‘That looks familiar from a long time ago,’” Brian D. said of the view coming down Front Street toward the old mall. “It brought me back.”
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