Genesis for the Project
NASHUA DOWNTOWN
RIVERFRONT
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
FINAL REPORT
City of Nashua, New Hampshire
Mayor Jim Donchess
Community Development Division
Prepared by Halvorson Design
August 2017
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Downtown Riverfront Implementation
December 7, 2021
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TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION
Laurie Ortolano
A question. Why did Director Cummings decide that now is the time to take on a $21 million project?
Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
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Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
Sure, it was with the Board of Aldermen. It was the Infrastructure Committee and I'm gonna say it was in September off
the top of my head, but I'm sure you could go back to the meeting minutes and look. | don't know.
Laurie Ortolano
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Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
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open up the riverfront and make it enjoyable. A lot of people have remarked that they didn't even realize that there
was a river there. So we'd be looking to maintain it as we go forward and we built that into the model.
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what we did in 2018/2019 very early on. Nothing that we're talking about here today is new. We've been discussing
this for quite a while.
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their thoughts, and we tried to capture those sentiments in this document and essentially what we're here today to do
is to implement that vision.
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Laurie Ortolano
Yeah, | just think that, you know, that might be something we should have budgeted in the regular budget. That's just my,
you know, my feeling on them.
Chairman Dowd
So, the items are in CERF and some of the items especially larger items in CERF we have recently gone out and bonded
with a low bonding rate. Also, all of these cost items are in the legislation.
Laurie Ortolano
