Students need to pay attention and a smart phone is a distraction

I think they skirted the parking issue because they wanted to move aggressively to get the team here. Same thing happens with suburban developments that never consider traffic congestion when building McMansion and strip mall developments.

Kelly Square is the icon of 300+ years of short-sighted, slapdash urban planning.

All Worcester city councilors(ALL) only care when it benefits their bank accounts. They only time they’ll do something for the constituents in their area is when it benefits them or affects someone/thing near the property that they own. That’s when they’ll go to the police or DPW to make something a priority when it really isn’t.(George Russell)…they had no problem trying to get a luxury box at the park on the taxpayers dime.

All Worcester city councilors(ALL) only care when it benefits their bank accounts. They only time they’ll do something for the constituents in their area is when it benefits them or affects someone/thing near the property that they own. That’s when they’ll go to the police or DPW to make something a priority when it really isn’t.(George Russell)…they had no problem trying to get a luxury box at the park on the taxpayers dime.

The city (certain council members) doesn't care about rent, parking, or traffic. They care about the money being made from developers and taxes. Even when the stadium was finished and opened, the parking garage was still under construction. You'd think an engineering basic like a parking garage would be finished BEFORE the stadium opened.

I’m about to work there for the summer. The atrocious parking options and the 20 minute walk to get to work blows

Every year I see these posts about the "ghetto" and "places to avoid in Worcester"

Oxford and pleasant street are geto

Great brook valley is geto and dangerous

Plumley is geto but only dangerous at night

The neighborhoods around “I love Frankie’s pizza” are geto, 6 gun shots fired last week

Gentrified is around WPi university, shrewsbury street, white city (plaza), blackstone plaza, Worcester state university area

Lakeside isn't great beaver brook area

Yup. When I lived on Washington street 15 years ago we partied with some train hoppers who hung out there. I also remember the old Salty Dog saloon. Wild times lol.

I don’t know how it would fall into classification, but I live on Blackstone river road in an old building. There’s a big complex being built and some old apartment buildings being gutted and renovated across the street from it. There were a few drug raids there last year and then one of the houses was lost to a fire, and I’m pretty sure the owner sold them after that. I’m mostly worried about the parking as my building already has zero off street parking and there’s tons of traffic from the school nearby.

Main South has gotten pretty gentrified.

It is out of control.

We all know that phones are more addictive than slot machines. But those ten year olds need better self control!! 😂😢😭

I appreciate the suggestions and will definitely be checking out the river trail and some of these rail trails. For time’s sake on a workday, I’d even love just a big parking lot to do laps in. Thanks y’all.

Ghetto has been replaced with "residential area of lower socioeconomic status."

I cannot respect articles like this. If you think cell phone use is the biggest obstacle Worcester students face in their education, you’re a self absorbed idiot not paying attention, or misinformed, or both.

How about a minority majority district with very few teachers that look like them and who can relate to them on a cultural or linguistic level. How about the violence that other students bring on each other. How about the terrible home life some of the kids have. How about the rotting asbestos filled school buildings they sit in every day (looking at you WEM and Columbus Park)

“Telling kids that “back in the day” we only talked to our moms in the office if she called for an emergency fell on deaf ears.”

I wonder why.

gardner rail trail is great for inline

Kelly Square is “gentrified” in the sense that there are a lot of new buildings and shops that are more or less owned by people not from the city, but strictly speaking, gentrification implies a population replacement of some kind. There’s no significant population to speak of in Kelly Square. Maybe the old factories that were turned into lofts? They still look nasty anyway. And if you go down Millbury street, there’s no kind of gentrification there. Drug dealers and their houses all down that road. Mostly Hispanic all the way past Quinsig. Ave too. I wouldn’t say Green Island is all the way gentrified. Definitely the tip of the iceberg tho. It’s a complicated scenario, because the new development isn’t replacing anyone per se, as Kelly Square/Polar Park areas of Green Island didn’t have a high population to begin with because the housing simply didn’t exist before. When it does, I wonder how that will change the surrounding areas.

If you want to see current gentrified neighborhoods, you’ll have to look a little bit further north, at downtown. 145 Front St. and The Grid changed the face of downtown, as well as the demographics. Didn’t do the city or its residents many favors, as I haven’t heard great things about either (mostly The Grid).

Kind of sucks because Union Station is the hub of public transportation, and people with cars simply don’t need to live near it the same way low-income families do. In addition, a good indicator in Worcester of gentrification or soon-to-be are the dispensaries. Look where the dispensaries are, and you’ll find gentrification of some kind nearby. Just lost my place near mayflower due to a predatory landlord from out of state.

You want to see “ghetto” areas too, but idk if Worcester has what can actually be called ‘ghettos’ technically speaking. If you want to see low-income neighborhoods with majority renters, then try Millbury St., Union Hill, look around Main South (west side) , and drive around the streets off Vernon-Winthrop or Grafton. You’ll see some rough looking areas. Anywhere between Vernon Hill and Grafton street, but each block is different. Don’t forget to take pictures of Worcester East Middle. That shit is prisonlike. Some of the roads off Shrewsbury street up behind cristoforo colombo might make good photos (especially since the rough areas are so close to a district like Shrewsbury st.) hope this helps.

There was a diy skatepark/slum area right in the canal district, right by the woo sox stadium is now

Laurel and Clayton area was affected decades ago. Had a large amount of the Black population of Worcester at the time. I think there is a decent lil doc on YouTube about it

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Thank you kind person.😊

The issue with rollerblading is going downhill (with control) is very difficult

That person is trying to gentrify your vocab