New Street In Worcester Gets MassWorks Grant Funding

WORCESTER, MA — Worcester was awarded a $1.5 million MassWorks infrastructure grant this week, which will help pay to build a new street through the Polar Park development.

Green Island Boulevard will connect Madison Street to the intersection of Lamartine and Hermon streets at the edge of the Green Island neighborhood. The total cost of the street will be about $3.35 million, according to a bid for the project released last spring.

The new street will run directly through a redeveloped 13-acre former Wyman-Gordon parcel south of Madison Street and the new Polar Park stadium. Developers plan to build a parking garage, apartments, office space and a hotel on the site, which has been scaled back from initial plans.

The new street will feature one lane of traffic in each direction, bike lanes and on-street parking.

Green Island Boulevard is part of a larger traffic overhaul near the stadium. The new Kelley Square peanut rotary is all but complete, calming one of the most notorious intersections in the state.