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Amherst Sts
Issues and Opportunties:
Heavy traffic road,
auto-dominated design
characterized by large
surface parking lots
between buildings and the
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Lack of pedestrian and
bicycle infrastructure and
poor connectivity
Access management and
traffic-related issues
No clear corridor
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Located on an important
state highway (Rt. 101A)
that connects communities
to the west to Route 3
Opportunities to provide
needed housing in this
area with walkable
mixed-use development,
including residential and
commercial office/retail
uses
Advance city’s goal to
create mobility-oriented
roads and streets that
balance multiple uses
Top Goal 1:
Redevelopment
Opportunity
Promote redevelopment that
is mixed-use, multimodal, and
sustainable in targeted areas with
access to transit, infrastructure
and amenities.
Action: Retrofitting Major
Corridors
Make commercial corridors more
viable by encouraging a wider
range of commercial uses, mixed-
use development, and active
ground floor uses; improving
multimodal infrastructure;
incorporating landscaping and
green infrastructure; enhancing
public realm through on the
sidewalk; and developing a form-
based code and facade and
signage regulations.
Existing commercial uses on Amherst Street.
Amherst Street Corridor
In collaboration with the City and
stakeholders, the Master Plan team
has identified the Amherst Street
corridor as the most important
large-scale site for long-term
planning for Nashua. Many issues
come into play here—the effects
of regional and macroeconomic
shifts in employment as we enter
deeper into the 21st century,
the challenges associated with
shifting transport and mobility
away from being dominated solely
by combustion-engine single
passenger vehicles, balancing the
opportunities of denser and more
walkable development with the
necessary infrastructural and land
use changes—and we believe that
pushing forward a progressive and
transformative reenvisioning of
this corridor will serve the entire
city well as it grapples with how
to address these issues in other
locations as well.
