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April 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
LHS should GO GO GO. You can talk of economic development all you want but as long as the high school is downtown, you will never attract consumers with pockets full of money to stroll and window shop there. That is not to say that the students are criminal-minded, but nobody in his right mind thinks it’s relaxing to have to dodge hordes of teenagers when out shopping with a few friends. Look at how many adults are in the malls on Friday or Saturday “freak-nights”. It doesn’t work. College students, on the other hand know how to leave “Animal House” at the dormroom. They’ve thrown so much money down the rathole that is downtown that it’s time to try something new.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Move the high school. In fact, it should be split up. Only the varsity sports coaches oppose splitting the high school. They don’t want to dilute the talent pool.
having 4000 students in one school is just not conducive to learning or student safety.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I have heard too many good arguments both ways about the high school to make up my mind on if it should stay or go, but really, for how long and at what part of the day are the LHS kids an issue? It’s no more than a couple hours. Most of the working world, those with “pockets full of money” is out “strolling and shopping” on weekends, when the high school has little relation to why kids are downtown, or at least in the early evening, where the same may be slightly less true.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Most people with “pockets full of money that stroll and window shop” do it after they get out of work…but unfortunately most of downtown Lowell is closed by then…except the bars. Remember the uproar of businesses when the LRTA moved the buses away from Page St because too many kids where hanging around?
There should be another high school, probably out by the stadium but it should be in addition to, not in place of, the current high school. A 4-thousand student school is way too big. Lowell spent years and millions building all kinds of new elementary and middle schools, and they all feed into the one high school.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:28 am
“The rathole that is downtown?” Downtown Lowell is doing better - in the middle of a deep national recession, mind you - than it has in decades. If you can walk down Merrimack Street in 2009, looking at all the new businesses, looking at the people coming and going from the restaurants, and see a rathole, then it’s just not the place for you, and the presence of high school students is the least of your complaints.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Joe, I believe PC is referring to the LHS building, not the downtown itself.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
UMass Lowell today made a major announcement regarding the future of the Doubletree Hotel in Lowell. The University released a report describing plans to transform the hotel into the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. Following is an excerpt from the report with a link to the complete document:
“ The UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center
A Report to the University and Community
April 2009
UMass Lowell and the City of Lowell Realize Full Potential for Partnership
Executive Summary
The University will create the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center at the former Doubletree Hotel in downtown Lowell.
The Inn & Conference Center (ICC) will transform this key facility in the heart of the downtown into the social, cultural, and intellectual hub that was imagined in 1986 when the hotel opened. Combining educational excellence, successful partnership-building experience, and a wide variety of goals shared with its partners, UMass Lowell will make the ICC a home base for activities that will enhance and showcase the resources and attributes of the City of Lowell, its educational institutions, and its business and cultural communities.
…
Dynamic, forward-looking and eminently achievable, this plan strengthens the bond of City and University as, together, the partners strengthen Lowell as an economically thriving and socially vibrant urban community.”
Click here for the full report:
http://www.uml.edu/media/inn_and_conference_center.pdf