Tatanuck Square ApartmentsTatnuck Square Apartments are great. You're right near Park and Main but you don't feel like you are - nice trees & brook running through the property. They have two styles of 2-bedroom apartments, one that includes an ensuite bathroom in the large bedroom. Super friendly neighbors, good local eats, and like I said, you're right near Park and Main with all they offer up.

There are too many undesirable people and lack of available affordable parking for that area to thrive. There used to be all kinds of bars and stores but they couldn't stay open. I hate going downtown because I know I'll have to park far away and it's sketchy for women to walk around there alone.

I would give you an award if I wasn’t broke

I wish we could consider but we'll be moving in September! Thank you for making sure I was aware- it would have been amazing to have that opportunity

Jobs. Worcester used to be an industrial manufacturing city, now those jobs are in china. These days if you want an upper middle class salary, you need to commute to Boston, which gets old fast when your two hour commute makes you late for work. There is some insurance, banking, biotech, etc, but the people I know that work in Worcester don’t get paid a lot. More money from jobs makes more restaurants, theaters, concert venues, etc. Right now if you have an awesome spot in Worcester, nobody has the money to go there regularly.

There used to be a Costco in Worcester.

Annie's! The food is delish and Annie is an absolute sweetheart.

Better schools. Stayed in Worcester after college until we started a family and my first child entered kindergarten. Had a horrific experience with the school system so we moved to the boroughs for the following year.

I saw the equipment load in thing and it sounds fishy.

More Chuck E. Cheese’s!

I feel like Skylite closed at the worst time. There has been such a resurgence of rollerskating and blading within the last 5 years.

that's because worcester is in the process of gentrification itself. it actually makes perfect sense

What if we built the most expensive minor league park in the country, and then failed to deliver on half of our promises about it?

Worcester rennaisance, baby!

Apex is always way too crowded that alone might be a good enough draw, plus its not always 15 mins for people thats really only if you live right near 290!

Maybe a shot in the dark, but a solid theatre district. Not like Hanover where it’s more of a garage for touring shows, and more accessible than BrickBox where the average person cannot afford to put a show there. But a good, semi-equity staged theatre so the local theatre scene can bustle and thrive.

It’s wild we don’t have one. Boston has several and even Springfield has one or two. A theatre scene where locals can become story tellers and tell prevalent, palpable, and relatable stories is so important. It sounds a bit sensationalized but the before and after from a welcoming and modern theatre scene does wonders for the culture and night life of a city

Costco would be nice none nearby and Bjs are all 20+ minutes.

You might not use club stores but they are great savings for families.

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Rent control/actually affordable housing, an in city movie theater, a rollerrink/arcade, public transportation, local art studios for the public to view the work of the local students, fix some of the roads, make the city more walkable, nightclubs with proper security/protection, more music venues, more work into parks and rec stuff to have cleaner and safer parks, cleaner streets/sidewalks.

The important thing would be to get more people living in the city through rent control/ making rent actually affordable. More people in the city means more money allocated to make the city nicer. We have SO MANY unused and vacant places and they just keep building more and more.

> You don't want to upgrade the fast food scene to something better than Popeye's?

What fastfood are we missing. We have like every chain even the rarer chick fil a. I guess we don't have sonic but they aren't as common up north.

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Gillette is soccer/football/music not baseball.

Movie theater in general. Worcester is one of the few cities in this country with a population of 200k+ without one. Back in the day, Worcester had at least three or four:

• Lincoln Plaza (three screens)
• Worcester Galleria (three screens)
• Webster Square (two screens)
• Showcase (five screens, now it's the Hanover Theater)

Plus, White City in Shrewsbury was just over the city line and had bus transport.

Showcase North came along later on, and was the place especially when Lincoln and Webster Square went bye bye. Soon enough, it was the sole theater in all of Worcester. Now it's completely gone, soon to become yet another warehouse complex. Shame.

Mind you, I don't mind hitting up West Boylston or Elm Draught House to support the local business (plus it's cheaper than going to Blackstone), but you have to admit the lack of a theater in general is a bit nuts.

I'll say something controversial, a reason to regularly go to the downtown.

The downtown is a ghost town most days, if we invested in the downtown with some more shops, event spaces, bars, etc. It would be much more popular

What fast food do you even want?

I don’t shop at club stores so I could care less about a Costco.

MB Shrewsbury is a 5-10 minute drive and on the bus line. Wegmans is a short drive and super overrated. Hannaford is fine but you’re not really missing anything as someone who has shopped there before.

All of these things rank levels below affordable housing for people and better infrastructure/transportation. I don’t have kids but I’d rate the requests above about children’s activities ahead of corporations.

I personally drive 13 minutes to Oxford MB and do some local shopping at Maker to Main.

Walkable organic neighborhoods, and particularly a downtown that offers things past 5 oclock. Affordable housing. More activities that aren’t restaurants or bars.

One thing that I don’t think gets enough attention is trying to retain college students in the area after graduation. We have a ton of excellent universities. Especially with the growth in software/tech, some public/private partnerships to retain WPI students via startup incubation or similar would be great.

There’s no reason that someone should have to go to metrowest, 128, or the city to work in tech for example when we have so many bright kids here for four years or more.