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A Year in Review: Malden in 2017 By Barbara Taormina s the city gets ready to close the books on 2017, many will look back and remember the highs and lows of the past year. While people will have different opinions about the progress of the past 12 months, the following stories reflect some of the moments that mattered most to Malden:
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The demolition of City Hall Over the summer, the city watched as the walls came tumbling down at 200 Pleasant St. The old City Hall, Police Station and the First Church of Malden were razed to make way for Jefferson at Malden Center, a private development that will bring 320 new apartments and many new shops
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and restaurants to Malden. The project includes a huge 45,000 square-foot office condo that will be Malden’s next City Hall. The demolition of the six-story government center that went up during the 1970s was a key step in the revitalization of Malden Center which will redefine the city for generations to come. Malden’s Growth Management Study and Moratorium Survey In March, Community Opportunities Group, Inc. of Boston, released Malden’s Growth Management Study that was conducted as part of the city’s two-year moratorium on multifamily development projects. The city also conducted a Moratorium Survey which drew more than 2,000 responses, the largest and loudest public survey in city history. And it wasn’t even close. Among those who responded to the survey, nearly 87 percent said Malden’s population, which is now around 63,000, should not grow beyond 65,000. As for more res- LOOKING BACK: Mayor Gary Christenson observes the razing of the old Government Center idential development, 73 per- building at 200 Pleasant St. this summer. The city hopes that the demolition of the outdated cent were against more apart- structure will lead to the revitalization of the city’s downtown.
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ment buildings throughout the city, and 67 percent said there has been enough development in Malden Square. Increasing public open space was a priority for 81 percent
of the respondents. According to the research team at Community Opportunities Group, which ran a series of public forums, there was “strong sentiment that the city
should limit future large-scale multifamily development both in the downtown and elsewhere.� The study found that
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Residents rallied around plans for a Malden River Greenway, a network of connected paths and parks on the banks of the river.