With LCC, Bentley Students Will Explore Lexington Center's Future

A group of LCC member Peter Siy's students at Bentley will create a web-based survey seeking residents input on the future of the downtown business district. Results will be presented at the end of the Spring 2013 semester.

The following information was provided on behalf of the Lexington Center Committee. As part of the Lexington Center Committee’s role in advising the Lexington Board of Selectmen, LCC chair Jerry Michelson has engaged Bentley University’s undergraduate students who focus on business improvement in their hands-on Integrated Business Project course. Michelson and the LCC are actively engaged in providing a clear vision for Lexington’s downtown central business district (CBD) to the Board of Selectmen. And Peter Siy, a member of the Center Committee is a teaching executive in residence at Bentley, and one of the professors responsible for the business core course Integrated Business Project(s).The committee and class come together this …

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Center Sidewalks Getting Some TLC

Work crews will be repairing "trip hazards" in Lexington Center this week and next, according to Public Works Director Bill Hadley.

Work to repair sidewalks along the north side of Lexington Center is going on this week and will head south next week as the town addresses some potentially hazardous sidwalk joints in the downtown area along Massachusetts Avenue. On Tuesday afternoon, a crew was working on section of sidewalk by Bertucci’s, blocking a portion of pedestrian access as they repaired what Public Works Director Bill Hadley described as “trip hazards.” Trip hazards commonly refer to vertical changes to a surface level that could prevent passage of a wheelchair or handicapped person.   “We are repairing some trip hazards that have been brought to our attention via Center Committee,” Hadley said in an email to Patch. “We delivered a letter to all the businesses …

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Hank Manz

5:46 pm on Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Whaddya mean "potentially hazardous?" I did get part of a column out of it, but every time I walk on the brick sidewalk past CVS I remember how much damage one sunken brick caused ... I am very glad they are doing some repair work and I remain hopeful that one day there will be a new sidewalk there. http://lexington.patch.com/articles/taking-it-personally-differences-between-men-and-women   more ›

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 9

A quartet of public meetings, the Farmers' Market, history and weather today for Lexington.

1. According to the town website, today’s public meeting schedule includes the Lexington Center Committee at 7:30 a.m. in Cary Memorial Hall’s Legion Room, the Trash & Recycling Collection Task Force at 8:30 a.m. in the Public Services Building’s Room 125, the Conservation Commission at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Office Building’s Selectmen’s Meeting Room and the Noise Advisory Committee at 7:30 p.m. in Cary Memorial Hall’s Ellen Stone Room. 2. The Lexington Farmers’ Market will run from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at its normal spot at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue, Woburn Street and Fletcher Avenue. 3. Cary Memorial Library will show three or four short films, based on young children’s books, for preschoolers, age 2 to 6, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 4. …

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