Issues

Good Meeting tonight. Economic development, or should I say the lack thereof, within District 6 has been a rather large problem. On a small scale our district includes 3 areas (there are only 5 such designations in the City of Worcester) that have been designated as a NRSA (Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area):

1. Main South through the Main South CDC
2. South Worcester through the South Worcester CDC
3. Chandler Street through Common Ground

The NRSA has a component to help small businesses including facade improvements, business promotion and employee training. To date I know of no business in any of these threee designated NRSA areas, who have benefited from these efforts.

On a larger scale, District 4 has two large commerical parcels ripe for development:

1. South Worcester Industrial Park (SWIP)
2. Wyman Gordon parcel

Can you imagine how much different the District would be if these areas contained businesses that provided jbs. I must admit that Paul Morano and Heather Kamczyk have done a great job the past 6 months on SWIP cleaning up some parcels and for the first time in a long time, there is some hope. At the same time I have heard about the South Worcester Industrial Park for literally 20 years and to date it has not provided one job, while something like Gateway Park (started much later) appears to be flourishing.