UR EAN DESIGN assocrates Nashua Downtown Master Plan
1 Residential Strategies
Bronstein
Apartments
The revitalization of
this public housing area
located near the heart
of Downtown into a
mixed-income
community is a great
great opportunity for
urban residential
development.
RESIDENTIAL DEMAND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE to be strongin —-28
the upcoming five to ten years. The City’s population has dou-
bled in forty years and grown approximately fifteen percent
over the past ten years. Most of the residential growth has con-
sisted of typical suburban single family housing on undevel-
oped land west of Everett Turnpike. The growth has served
traditional suburban households (primarily married parents
with school age children.) Ironically, despite the fact most of
the new housing products in Nashua have catered to “tradi-
tional households”, this household type represents only one
quarter of the region’s households. The other three quarters
consist of mostly single persons living alone, single head of
household with children or other dependents, or married cou-
ples with no children. These underserved markets are the
household types that can be targeted for Downtown Nashua’s
housing.
Like many regions across the country that have funnelled
their new housing construction to suburban areas, the demand
for new construction housing in urban areas is very strong and
relatively untapped. Thus there is strong market support for
new housing in Downtown Nashua, targeted to a large market
of “non-traditional” households.
