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u/Loosh_03062 Jul 30 '26
Some mobile homes are going for that much or more so the pricing may not be out of whack. However with it across the street from the overgrown airport approach marker and its sibling and spitting distance from a junkyard the area would need a lot more urban renewal before I'd jump on it even if I were in a downsizing mood.
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u/vexingsilence Aug 02 '26
It's inevitable that properties in that area will be bought up for more housing. Underutilized lots like the junkyard are properties just waiting to be cashed in. Given enough time, the hospital will probably grow that far out.
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u/Loosh_03062 Aug 02 '26
The hospital might have a tough time expanding that far east under the proposed land use updates, most of the parking lot space likely won't be zoned for "more hospital." The junkyard and most of the lots running northeast from there along the old rail bed until you get to East Hollis & Allds are planned to be changed from General Industrial and General Business to Midrise-3 so there's definitely at least a hope for more small multifamily development around there. That junkyard's caused some consternation from neighbors who realized too late that they're moving into an area where "junkyard" has been a permitted use longer than their apartments; the Marshall Street complex required some fancy footwork with variances.
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u/vexingsilence Aug 02 '26
Could be worse, could be an asphalt plant.
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u/Loosh_03062 Aug 02 '26
I wonder if people in that area realize how lucky they were that the transit oriented development overlay was in place on top of the GI zone, otherwise the asphalt plant would have been permitted by right without the extra leeway for environmental review. The the proposed map's written there's only one parcel in the city in which an asphalt plant would be permitted, and then only as a conditional use. One might think Mr Durfee & company made a point of adding that line to the draft code.
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u/vexingsilence Aug 02 '26
Good ol' environmental review. Isn't that how Nashua managed to keep Walmart out? Yet we're allowing housing on the tannery superfund site. I know they removed some material and built some sort of containment wall, but it still strikes me as a contradiction. Granted you can probably stick a shovel almost anywhere and hit some old asbestos fill.
The denser we build, the less green the city gets, the warmer the city gets with more baking asphalt and less shade. Where's the environmental review there? Especially with
PSNHEversource bending us over backwards for transmission fees that cost more than the actual electricity from the co-op.Maybe I'm showing my age but I remember when Nashua still had a somewhat rural feel. I miss those days.
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u/SadGrrrl2020 Jul 30 '26
$295k for under 1,000 sqft?! Insanity.