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All I have heard is that an architect has been engaged, and the idea is townhouse style.
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My money would be on the north side of City View.  The Jesuit residence once had a City View address for assessing purposes, but no longer.  The residence is now part of the campus itself, and is no longer a separate parcel on City View.

On the north side of City View, lots 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are owned by Holy Cross.  The total frontage on City View for these five lots is 410 feet, and total area is 36,730 square feet.

Assuming 80 percent lot occupancy, the townhouses could have a building footprint of about 29,000 square feet. Three stories would provide 90,000 square feet, more or less..  Figge is 60,000 sq ft and 156 beds.   Using Figge values, 90,000 sq ft would give you about 225 beds, which is about the number needed for an Easy St dorm taken off-line for reconstruction. 

11 City View is to the immediate west of the Jesuit residence.  11 City View has an 85 foot frontage on City View and the lot is 11,192 square feet.  Owned by a family trust, the homeowner, at the time the trust was established, died in 2000 at the age of 86.  Surviving child is about 80, and apparent only child of the surviving child is about 60.  I assume the 80 year old is now the sole trustee. The two family house (four bedrooms, two full baths) is rented. Assessed value is $234,000.

I assume HC has approached the trustee(s) as to whether he would be interested in selling the property.  If he did sell, adding that quarter acre of land to the other holdings on City View could significantly change where the townhouse are built, and their configuration.  IMO, the value of the property to HC diminishes greatly if HC builds the townhouses without this land.  (Unless of course, HC envisions this property as the site for the Japanese tea house.)

I was unaware of that "affordable" condo complex. It does sound like an attempt at doing something positive for Worcester. What are the units selling for that is considered affordable?

Holy Cross making payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT / PILT) to the city is frowned on (an understatement) by the great majority of the posters who commented on past proposals to require such by the Worcester City Council..

I checked the tax base, looked at a property (with a house) on City View owned by Holy Cross, and HC appears to have paid $3700+ in property taxes in 2018 for this property.

I did not check Caro, where HC demolished the housing on most of the properties it bought. If HC is paying taxes on vacant land, the tax owed would be much less than it would be for the land with improvements (building).
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I believe I mentioned this before, but HC now owns all but two of the lots on City View. #11, and #20. #20 is the last house on the south side of the street, across from the Jesuit residence.

After somewhat outwitting possible cache issues on the webcam feed, it looks as if:

*  Lot 1 (closest to Hogan) is closed, Lot 2 (marked as Zipcar lot on Google maps) is closed, Lot 3, (marked as Faculty and staff lot on Google maps) is closed.  The north part of Lot 4 may also be closed.  Lot 4 is what you  would traverse going from City View to Figge. and McCarthy Lane.

*  Green construction fencing and a gate at the west end of the east section of Lot 2 (near Brooks Mulledy).  A construction trailer appears to be just beyond this green fencing and the construction gate.
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*  A dumpster in the middle of the closed section of lot 2.  Probably for the wooden guardrails, and electrical utility pipes 

I expect construction to start within several weeks.
     

I think the live stream is disabled. I clicked on save image, and I was able to snag a larger static image of the thumbnail.
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As was also the case for The Jo, I was unable to obtain a set of construction plans for the CAC like I was for the Luth. And the renderings make it difficult to determine what side of the CAC Ione is looking at.





There is another rendering in which the shadows suggest that this building is in the Southern Hemisphere.  Looking toward Easy St/?

My guess is that the CAC will take the south row of spaces in Lot 1, all of Lot 2 between the Hart Hogan road and the parking lane that runs north south and is aligned with the east side of Lehy; all of Lot 3, and the north row of spaces in Lot 4 between the Hart Hogan Road and the aforementioned parking lane.

How long does it typically take after someone makes such a sizable gift for a building like this to break ground. I know there are probably 10,000 variables involved but it seems this project is stuck in the mud. Are the donors getting antsy I wonder?

Approximate outline of construction site in fuschia.  Area between green dash line and fuschia line is likely area to be landscaped.  Most (all) of this area is fenced off.

Yellow lines are realigned Upper Campus Road.  Red line is City View.

Lot 1 is at top next to Hogan.  (Lot nomenclature is Phreek's)
Lot 2 has Zipcar button,
Lot 3 has Faculty Staff Lot button
Lot 4 has four rows of parking.  North two rows are in the construction zone.  At the SE corner (image lower right) of the fuschia rectangle, Jersey barriers have been placed, and one can no longer head west and exit this lot at the north-south parking lane that runs through the 'Staff' signage on the map .

The south two rows of Lot 4 remain open and allow one to drive between City View and McCarthy Lane.

I have no problem discerning where I am in this rendering!

Also, this morning, the contractor has begun digging.  I think this meets HC70's metric of 'it isn't happening until trucks start rolling up the hill'
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Healy.

West to east, Healy, Lehy, Hanselan, Clark

 I believe Lehy was the first Easy St dorm, and is 75 years old.  Hanselman was next. That's why I posted in the capital campaign thread that the college's next construction priority is rebuilding these dorms.

Wheeler has a freight elevator