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On the other side were those who saw the appeal, mostly via rising property values, in letting a big, monied developer clean up what they considered an underused stretch of town. City planners delivered their verdict to New England Development: To greenlight this particular plan would require significant zoning changes, including to maximum building heights, minimum lot frontages, and open space requirements. Eight months later, NED presented a revised plan that reduced the height of some of the buildings and created more public space in the form of two small parks.

The plan also included retaining part of the working marina. On and on it went. Over the next few years, an ad hoc committee was formed between the planning board and the city council. An urban-design consultant was brought in. No one could agree on anything. In August , Karp presented another version of the proposal that reduced the square footage, increased open space, and included a room hotel.

At one of the last community meetings, in , town members stood up, one by one, to take the floor. The proposed development was too dense, some said. They hated the design, others said. This went on for hours until close to 60 people had given the proposal a vehement thumbs-down. After that, Holaday began to hear rumblings from NED that it might not be able to include a hotel, which was the one thing the city desperately wanted out of the project.

Currently, Newburyport has only a small handful of inns, none of which has a restaurant, a conference center, or a place, as Holaday put it, for high schoolers to hold their proms. A shot from the largely undeveloped waterfront on the Merrimack River in Newburyport. Locals loved the Roasters, as they called it, in large part because it felt so authentically Newburyport, tucked in the back of a dusty working boatyard in the shadow of half-million-dollar boats along a path that connected one part of a waterfront boardwalk to the next.

The Roasters was also a place that forged connections, as Vogel made laptoppers and other loitering types share tables, which he says people bristled at but also secretly loved. He went over to Vogel, who is also a city council member, and handed him a piece of paper. According to the notice, Vogel actually had 45 days to vacate his storefront, which he took, plus a month more.

But none of it seemed to matter. Many people thought NED targeted the shop as a way to send a message, perhaps even to the mayor and city council, that it was in charge. Karp had done a Gone were the luxury condos. Gone was the hotel the town so desired. Two five-story buildings would contain a total of rental units.

It wrecks our skyline. Their relationship has seen them develop dozens of malls in New England, starting with the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, in But their footprint is not restricted to the region. A partnership that he also thanks REFA for acknowledging. Perhaps the most endearing and well-aligned commendation of the evening came from one of the industries legends and past Swain honoree, Bill McCall, on the duo.

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