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DESIGN ASSOCIATES
Nashua Downtown Master Plan
Main Street South to avoid Main Street
altogether. By removing as much local
traffic and curb cut access from Main
Street as possible, Main Street can func-
tion more effectively as a regional
through route.
Salmon Brook Park
Located south of Main Street Market-
place, Salmon Brook Park is the southern
Gateway to Downtown. The park can
create a “green” gateway.
Studies and a public design charette
for Salmon Brook Park have explored the
possibility of daylighting the culverted
brook south of the Main Street Market-
place and creating a pedestrian underpass
under Main Street. Additionally, the
park would restore and stabilize remnant
historic industrial structures where a dam
and turbine once stood. Implementation
of this plan will require a partnership
with the private property owner.
Redevelopment Opportunities
Main Street South presents many oppor-
tunities for redevelopment. Most are
located between Otterson and Salmon,
Brook. With the exception of a few of
the grand residences between Hollis and
Otterson, most of the buildings are
either disposable, obsolete, or of no his-
toric value. Over the next ten years, it is
likely that many of these properties will
be redeveloped. The Master Plan recom-
mends this redevelopment occur incre-
Salmon Brook Park 68
Section A:
Section across Salmon
Brook: dam and
turbine are restored as
an historic industrial
remnant and public
sculpture. (top left}
Section B
Section through Main
Street: a pedestrian
underpass under Main
Street is created
connecting Salmon
Brook Park to Main
Street Market Place.
(top right)
(section drawings from
Salmon Brook
Charette}
The reconfigured park
celebrates and preserved
this part of Nashua's
early heritage and
development (bottom)
