Downtown Worcester Gets More Good News

The old Berwick Furniture Company at the corner of Main & Madison - where Chandler Street ends at the Mass RMV bldg - will help remove most of the city's downtown blight by adding 45 apartments, with 40 slated for lower-income families. Reading further in the article, it appears that the company which bought the building is also bought out all that empty property behind the building, as well as some other nearby properties:

EDFC [Economic Development Finance Corp. of Dedham] also plans to build a new 60-unit Beacon Place condominium complex behind the former Burwick building.
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...EDFC also has purchase-and-sale agreements to buy two more nearby properties: A building at 661 Main St. that is owned by Caravan Co. Inc., and a building at 2 Ionic Ave. that is owned by the Worcester Boys Club, according to Worcester Assessor’s Office online records.

All good news, since this area is on the other side of all the other development already happening or slated to happen in Worcester over the next few years...plus, these are all brownfield redevelopments of one form or another...