Reporting by walking around - Sunday, June 26

Sunday morning was a glorious day for a walk around Franklin

The neighborhood has formalized their efforts to object to the proposed Madalene Village. The Village is proposed to be built along the edge of Fletcher Field between Peck and Cottage and encroaching upon the small but important Spruce Pond Brook.

The next Zoning Board of Appeals hearing is scheduled for July 14th
https://www.facebook.com/groups/savesprucepondbrook/

signs appearing prompting discussion on the Madalene Village proposal

we stopped by Elizabeth's Bagels for coffee and breakfast and had a picnic at the Sculpture Park

the forest spirits are alive and well among the flowers in bloom

The building downtown at the corner of Emmons St and West Central continues to make progress. Did anyone else notice that the depiction of the building is not exactly what is being built? Count the number of doors. If I count properly, there is one missing compared to the design shown.

the image on the bottom shows more doors than are actually being built

count the doorways, there are six, yet the design shows seven

'front' of building facing parking lot

'back' of building facing the street and the future Horace Mann statue and greenspace

Emmons St side view

The new polymer crosswalks do like like real brick.

polymer crosswalk