Good Bones

That's what a consultant told Robert L. Hubbard, city director of planning and community development of Gardner, Massachussetts, about the city's infrastructure. Gardner intends to build on those bones with an urban renewal plan.

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January 18, 2010, 11:00 AM PST

By Tim Halbur

George Barnes writes, "Mr. Hubbard said the idea is to clean up what was becoming a blighted area and use it to help make a more active and successful downtown. At one time, the factories in the rear Main Street area provided downtown businesses with a regular customer base, many of whom walked to work, shopped in the stores downtown and ate lunch in the local restaurants.

Today, downtown has lost the factory workers with the closing of the businesses and has been losing customers to malls."

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Sunday, January 17, 2010 in Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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