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It could cost tens of million dollars to prepare the former MCI-Concord prison area for the renovation.
The residents want a mixture of living space and companies, but the economy is in the flow. And will the Commonwealth Avenue fly over Route 2?
One year after the reusing planning of prisons, the city guides mark the milestone in the form of a new report from their planning consultant. While the state thinks of the moth prison and the locals, what will come next, they also test sharp news for Beacon Hill.
John Boynton, board member of the MCI-Concord Advisory Board, said that the website was “not different” to the superfund location in the 2229 Main Street.
“The situation is that this piece of land in Concord has been under the care and administration of the state for 150 years, and so they left it,” said Select board chairman and colleague Mark Howell in a recent meeting.
“We shouldn't be too shy to name it and say: 'What will you do about it?'”
Concord Housing according to the numbers
Almost 50% of Concord tenants And 25% of homeowners more than 30% of their income On living space in 2022.
92% by Concord Jobs are held by Residents outside the city.
Source: Agency Landscape + Planning Mci-Concord Vision Plan
Report details
A 94-page report from the Landscape + Planning agency limited a sprint to collect the entry of the community before a state budget has expired.
The agency checked the prison 83 tomorrow, but found 54 acres for development. The building could begin soon, said agency, said 2028.
Concordians and government figures largely agree that the location should have some apartments. Consultants said that the key was the key.
Some administration buildings could house living space. The former gym and the foundry of the prison were able to accommodate business.
However, cell blocks would be difficult to repeat due to their layout and the “history as rooms of detention”, the report says.
City officials hope that the sewage treatment plant of the prison will alleviate some of the crisis of Concord's channel capacity. Other infrastructure, including a network of steam tunnels, are not assigned to state materials and could be a problem.
Among other things, challenges:
- Rainwater upgrades requires new development.
- The sewage system needs 25 million US dollars to be fully utilized.
- The demolition could cost $ 18 million.
- Environmental cleaning costs are unknown.
If the housing estates in the Baker Avenue and the Forest Ridge Road are allowed online, the forecasts have the Concord schools space for 80 students from the development at MCI-Concord and elsewhere.
Route 2 questions
Agency noticed efforts to redesign Route 2 -Rotary outside of prison, and said local officials have to coordinate with the state.
The Commonwealth Avenue via Route 2 with a network of ramps would forward a mass dot option.
However, Howell said that state drafts that were recently presented in a quarterly meeting did not look like the concepts in the agency plan. “This is exactly where there is a big separation,” Howell told the Select Board on June 30th.
Howell said it could take five years for Route 2 designs to be ended. But civil servants should have a “pretty good idea” of the later route within three to six months.
In an interview, Senator Michael Barrett (D-Lexington) said that Route 2 plans will be crucial to determine the “external limits” of the renovation of the MCI Concord Development. He said that mass was so far “a bit shy” about plans and this communication was frustrating.
However, he found a large part of the fault of President Donald Trump and said that the creative federal financing is allowed to close the vision of the highway.
State ear mark
At the MCI Concord Advisory Board Board meeting in July, Select Board member Mary Hartman said that the agency's school capacity discussion was “simplified” and that it would like further analyzes.
Howell said he was surprised by high renovation costs and said the city needed more clarity.
In contrast to the superfund location, which was abandoned by his dirty, Howell said that Concord could chase the state for cash for prison cleaning.
Governor Maura Healey approved a further 250,000 US dollars in this year's state budget, but only plans to publish earmarks until the fall of the economy falls into the fall and the state has to cut out the expenditure.
Barrett said the money appears “doubt.” However, he hopes to sell MCI-Concord as a housing project in accordance with the priorities of the affordability of Healey.
“We all have to do that every sack mark that smoothes the way to housing within the Route 495 must be preserved,” he said.
In a declaration of email, MEP Simon Cataldo (D-Concord) praised the prison planning process and hopes that this year's ear marker will survive all the cuts.
The Rep. Carmine Gentile (D-Sudbury) found the governor's budget challenges and said that its government “consistently supported” the renovation of the prison.
Contract extension
While the state states are looking at his health insurers, Howell said the Concord Bridge that he was happy to have $ 250,000 from a recent coordination with the city assembly in hand, and the city is considering extending its contract with agency for more public relations in the now concluded report.
The MCI-Concord Advisory Board is expected to discuss an extension next week.
Panel member Elizabeth Akehurst-Moore said during the meeting of the last month: “We shouldn't hurry up to spend money” when the officials set their vision for prison property. Reconating is on the horizon and Howell agreed that the scramble was not sustainable this spring.
“We should be able to set our own pace and we will discuss it in the next few weeks,” he said.
In the past few weeks, the State Department of Correction has prepared to prepare control over the prison to the state department for capital assets administration and maintenance.
