Trouble Spot

That is the title of a story in the newspaper today, click here.



What is the South Worcester Neighborhood Center doing, other then getting press, doing about it? This building has been a problem for years, why didn't they push for the receivorship years ago? Although I am property rights person, buildings like these kill neighborhoods and need to be placed in receivorship.

Note the picture, the police are walking on the sidewalk next to City Builders owned by the South Worcester Neighborhood Center. Now look at the sidewalks and how they are manicured or how the fence leans into the sidewalk never mind the piles of rubbish inside the property. If this property was owned by me or you, we would have people picketing us. Jeff, next time drive by and take a picture of the building.

What does the South Worcester Neighborhood Center propose for this location, a 7 iron away from 1 and 3 Douglas Street? A 28 unit high low to moderate income apartment building. In a neighborhood that needs more pride in ownership as outlined by the RKG study 5 years, the South Worcester Neighborhood Center is building a 28 unit low income apartment builing?

Now for this poor lady. I do not know this woman personally but I know exactly who she is. As bad I feel for her, she bought this unit (one of two --duplex) ironically enough from the South Worcester Neighborhood Center. She really should have done her homework and if it was me, I never would have moved my family in across this building. I know that must sound harsh but she has complained about this building since the time she moved in. Again this begs the question as to why receivorship was not pushed by the neighborhood center before now?

To date the South Worcester has been directly involved in 3 development projects;

1. duplex on the corner of Douglas and Grand. One of the home buyers has moved out as detailed in the Telegram story.
2. corner of Cambridge and Hacker. Another disaster. Think only 3 units have been sold and Holy Cross has taken over the note that they guaranteed.
3. proposed development of City Builders in 28 low to mod income apartments

I am telling you my number one issue for candidates this year is what are they going to do about these developers of low to mod income housing in our urban core.