The Grid District is a collection of buildings in downtown
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester ( , ) is a city and county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, the city's population was 206,518 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the second-List of cities i ...
.
Description
When finished, the Grid District will have 510 residential units, 60,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and parking spaces.
["Bottom Line: MG2 digs into urban renewal in Worcester's Grid District"]
telegram.com, May 1, 2016. Accessed September 22, 2016 The buildings included in the Grid District are the
Park Plaza apartments at 507 Main Street;
Bancroft Commons
The Bancroft Hotel is a historic hotel building at 50 Franklin Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1912 and expanded in 1925, it is one of the city's finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture, and was for many years its finest and most o ...
apartments at 50 Franklin Street; 56 Franklin Street, which is home to Brew on The Grid; the Paris Cinema building, 66 Franklin Street; 72 Franklin Street, which is leased by
Becker College
Becker College was a private college in Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts. Becker College traced its history from the union of two Massachusetts educational institutions—one founded in 1784 and the other in 1887 ...
for student housing; and the Houghton Building at 82 Franklin Street.
[
The Paris Cinema building has been under threat of taking by ]eminent domain
Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (India, Malaysia, Singapore), compulsory purchase/acquisition (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Austr ...
by the city, but is now scheduled to be demolished in 2016 and replaced with pop-up retail space in the short term.["Worcester is eminently serious"]
Worcester Business Journal Online, May 9, 2016. Accessed September 28, 2016
Background
MG2 acquired the Bancroft Commons building in the 1990s, which became the genesis of the Grid District. The owner of record is Fifty Franklin LLC, a domestic limited liability corporation listing John McGrail, MG2’s president, as a signatory of the corporation, according to public records.urban redevelopment
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...
plan proposed by the Worcester Redevelopment Authority.[ The area that MG2 owns is about . Within these 6 acres, five restaurants and a coffee shop, with a total of 550 seats, are scheduled to open next year. The restaurant group developing these restaurants plans to use them to launch new brands throughout ]New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ...
or nationwide."Worcester developer, restauranteur [sic] forge unlikely pact"
''Worcester Business Journal'' Online, September 12, 2016. Accessed October 4, 2016
References
External links
Official website
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Neighborhoods in Worcester, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Worcester, Massachusetts