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i toured about a 1 mile radius of downtown of Mansfield to see what i could see; really looking ghetto. Still mostly White so dont misconstrue 'ghetto' means black. Almost looks like i was in a bad section of Boston. Saw lots of rental properties.
You may need to clarify what you mean by a ghetto here, because sounds like it means older houses because crime rate is pretty low. It's no different from a mile radius of Natick downtown. I don't see the knock here. Having lived in both towns, in many ways Mansfield is Natick south .
Condos and apartment properties near the downtown will only create a more walkable community. And despite the new construction, it is still not easy to find apartments near the train in Mansfield.
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Across the MBTA railroad station a HUGE MONSTER city like apartment building complex has gone up. About 5 stories up, Kinda looks like a Stadium.
I agree, it looks a bit too grandiose for my liking.
Oh, I have to see this building. It sounds hideous.
I think North Attleborough reminds me of "Natick south", not Mansfield.
The Mansfield Monster blocks out half the sky.
While checking out the Mansfield Monster Building across the railroad station, be sure to trot down the road to Easton and take a ride thu the new huge urban Easton apartment City complex behind the Target store. SIgnage throughout the City of Easton new apartment monster complex is half in English, half in Spanish.
The charm of moving to and living in a Massachusetts town, it is a town. Not a city, not a suburb. Mansfield is matriculating into a suburb.
It's been a suburb/exurb for a long time. Two interstates go through there. The Comcast center is there, attracting thousands of people regularly. It's a stone's throw from Providence.
I don't know what romantic notion you had about Mansfield, but it's nowhere close to a quaint rural new england town.
It's been a suburb/exurb for a long time. Two interstates go through there. The Comcast center is there, attracting thousands of people regularly. It's a stone's throw from Providence.
I don't know what romantic notion you had about Mansfield, but it's nowhere close to a quaint rural new england town.
I owned and sold a family building in Mansfield in the mid 1990s. The interstates,Comcast,ie Great Woods, the retail development all were in existence but Mansfield was still a little town.
Also, 10 years ago i took an out of stater on a 4 day tour of Southern Boston and Cape Cod for them to get a feel of where they would want to move to. Easton was too much traffic and too close to Brockton. They didnt care for Cape Cod. We passed though Mansfield at one point as an incidental. Later on the out of stater, said she liked Mansfield.
I said Mansfield? Mansfield was not on the list of towns i set out to show you.
Mansfield still seems like a town but perhaps i didnt take a good look. The Mansfield Monster building looks like something out of metropolitan Boston.
A part of me thinks this may in fact be racial. As evidenced by the "this isn't racial but.." "booming car stereo type downtown"
Mansfield Easton were mentioned. Two towns where I know more than one black family. My guess is you saw more than two black people saw a semi-urban environment and made a personal downgrade.
Here's the news wror.. this is the fastest growing state in the north east Massachusetts is trying to add tens and thousands of units in the next 15 years many people who formally would have settled in Boston or lived in Boston have been pushed out to the South Shore will land is cheaper and some towns are in need of additional revenue these apartment complexes it being built in Quincy Dedham Randolph Easton Canton Mansfield are going to keep proliferatibg for 20 years. The urbanization of eastern mass will not end-just get used to it
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