Friday, January 4, 2013
Planning Board chairman's first impression of the site.
Belmont Planning Board Chairman Sami Baghdady learned the news of Macy's leaving Belmont Center like so many residents on Thursday, Jan. 3, via the Internet. But that was because Baghdady didn't have a chance to retrieve his voice mail from the night before. "The landlord (Kevin Foley) did give me a call as a head's up but I got it late," said Baghdady. As the head of the five-member board that is charged to protect and preserve the character and the quality of life that defines Belmont, Baghdady has a keen interest on what will happen with the building at 75 Leonard St. And his first reaction on its possible future lies in its mass. "No doubt it is a lot of space," said Baghdady. "Number one 75,000 square feet is a big space so if (…
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tonight's meeting will put on display a market-based system of parking for Belmont.
For decades, there have been two constants when discussing parking in Belmont Center: 1. No one likes what's there now, and 2. No one likes any of the plans to change what's there now. That has been the dilemma facing planners, consultants, businesses and residents since the time when Leonard Street became Belmont's commercial hub. But as Belmont Center becomes a destination location for restaurants and as the demands for the available spaces around the Center grows, the need for a comprehensive program to satisfy these several constituencies has become paramount for the town. Tonight, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall Auditorium, just such a project to resolve the longstanding parking issues will be given a public airing before it is…
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Town wants residents to take parking survey, attend open house on Belmont Center Wednesday.
How would you improve Belmont Center parking? Install parking meters? Residential stickers? Connect Leonard Street with the Claflin Street Municipal Lot via a passageway? Have the town buy Macy's and construct a five-story parking garage on the site? Start over? That's what the Town’s Planning and Economic Development office wants to know as it begins a comprehensive parking study for Belmont Center. Led by Chief Planner Jay Szklut, the town is asking residents to participate in two ways to begin the process of gathering information that will generate a blueprint of improving access for residents and visitors to Belmont's retail and restaurant district. The first is an online survey on the current parking situation in Belmont Center and …
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Art Peters
8:14 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
The developer must be prepared to go through a slow and costly process that may take years in their dealings with the current Planning Board Commission. A case in point is the Cushing Square fiasco. more ›