McManus should have been removed a long time ago. This is just another reason to add to the list.

Now do St. John's HS

It makes sense when you stop looking at it as incompetence and start looking at it as an organized pedophilia ring

This is the way it has always worked in Massachusetts. The people who built my house in 1910 paid thousands in 1956 to have the city incorporate the road. Before that it was dirt.

This should come up during the purchase process and whether the parcel is attached to public or private right of way is reflected in the land value.

My aunt prosecuted Nazis in the 80’s for DOJ’s Office of Special Investigations, then switched to internet crime in the 90’s, serving near 40 years before retiring a few years ago. She refers to the Church as an “international criminal syndicate”.

No shit.

This is a dumb report. Most homeowners have fixed costs (mortgage) whereas renters have to pay a competitive market rate.

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No shit. Can anybody who works in the city even afford to rent there on their own? Starting prices put starting rental wages around $25/hour. What industry does Worcester even have that can support those prices?

Dang, sucks to hear. I ordered from them weekly during the pandemic lockdown (thanks DashPass!)

Good

It’s total BS. I lived on a dead end private road for 5 years off Vernon street and it was absolute shite. The plows would barely even touch it, and the few plows that did the complex at the top of the hill would literally lift up their plows and drive past us as they went back down. Residents still have to pay property and excise tax but you don’t get the same benefits as everyone else who lives on a “public” street.

Why would anybody (whether it's business or city) take on additional liability for free? The city would then be on the hook for potential maintenance, access, public transportation and snow plowing. I can understand why they might require one time compensation.

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You have to pay them to offload the rights? That's insane! You would think the city would want to take a more proactive approach than that

We had to pay $150 per foot of frontage and it became a public way. That process was years long.

What percentage of homeowners on these private streets even qualify for this?? Seems very limited.

I never understood the whole “Private Street Dangerous” thing. From my understanding these were informal streets and the houses just popped up around them. Some of these streets are extremely dangerous

Northboro plaza past white city in shrewsbury.

Along the same route in westborough there’s the Christmas tree shop, further down There’s also a target, Walmart, Burlington coat factory and other little stores in the Burlington coat factory plaza. Further down from that Is a hidden plaza down a road I can’t think of it’s name. But the plaza has a medical center in it and there’s a railroad by it.

All these locations are a 10-20minute drive out of Worcester but along the same shrewsbury turnpike route

Is there no buyout option? The city should be asking for some of that infrastructure money to offer to buy the streets back. Seems like a lot of the ones I drive by are being used as public rights of way anyway. Doesn't seem fair to be asking for homeowners to pay maintenance on them if there's no way out of the situation for them.

Vaillancourt in Sutton is a nice store for higher-end gifts.

Birch Alley is also right across the parking lot from Crompton and looked very decked out in Christmas Stuff when I went passed it this weekend.

At the same time, I hate having to listen to beeping and construction 24/7 outside my apartment. If they were filling in some of the damn potholes on the road, I wouldn't mind so much, but I haven't even noticed any positive change for the trouble.

In worcester: Crompton collective in the canal district right next to the worcester public market. Small locally owned businesses if that's what you're looking for. Stuff ranging from plants to interesting oddities...there's also a bookstore. Within the worcester public market are also local makers and not just food vendors, one example is someone who makes soaps.

Little outside worcester is the Blackstone shopping center in milbury that's basically your typical mall area. For a wider array of shops there's the Natick mall area up route 9, but it's typical big stores and name brands you're used to. But it'll have stuff good for gifting like Lush, anthropology, origins, UNIQLO, William sonoma, crate and barrel.

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They do! Not a crazy ton but worth a shot