How Should the City Reuse the Health Department Building in Newton Centre?
A joint advisory planning group has studied the land and the 85-year-old building and suggested the space could be used for a restaurant or market.
If you had 16,000 square feet of land in Newton Centre, what would you do with the space? That is the question the city is facing right now in considering its options for the Health & Human Services Department building located at 1294 Centre St. In September 2011, the city's Health & Human Services Department declared the 85-year-old building and its land as surplus, leaving it available for other uses. The Newton Centre property is a 16,160-square-foot parcel with a building that has 4,800 square feet of usable space, according to city documents. Built in 1927, the building is listed on the National Register of Historical Places and was one of the five original branches of the Newton public library system. According to a memo from the …
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Adam Maleson
4:43 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Excellent suggestion, Regina. I also would endorse its return to the purpose for which it was built: branch library. Even if it is only a paperless internet-terminal library, there is no reason this use should not happen. It's one thing to argue that the physical book collection should be all amassed in one physical location, the main library. But to have more computer access terminals at the … more ›