URBAN DESIGN ASSOCIATES
a major attraction for Nashua. The
museum will showcase Nashua's strong
industrial heritage as well as provide
interactive areas for learning the new
technologies being developed in the
Region. The recommended site, between.
Factory and Water Street, is a strategic
Downtown site perfect for this facility.
Located less than a block from Main
Street, the museum and learning center
will have a Main Street presence without
occupying valuable Main Street retail
frontage. The building will face both
Factory Street and Water Street. Its front
on Factory Street will help re-establish
Benjamin’s historic axial relationship that
once existed between the Olive Street
Nashua Downtown Master Plan
Church and the Millyard. 4B
The facility will benefit from an
existing parking garage located directly
across Factory Street. An additional level
may need to be added to this garage to
accommodate museum visitors as well as
to absorb the loss of parking that cur-
rently exists on the proposed museum
site.
As a “through-block” building, the
museum should provide in its design
open, public access between Water Street
and Factory Street. Another access point
between Le Parc de Notre Renaissance
Francaise and Factory Street will further
aid pedestrian circulation.
Existing Park: Le Pare
de Notre Renaissance
Francaise and Nashua
River
(top)
Proposed Riverfront
West Park on the north
bank of the Nashua
River
(bottom)
