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Article: SALEM CITY TARGETED FOR REVITALIZATION GROUP HOPES IT CAN FOLLOW LOWELL AS NATIONAL HISTORIC URBAN PARK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 18, 1988
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SALEM - A survey team of historians, planners, a graphic artist,
an archeologist and a landscape architect is scouring Salem this
week as part of a comprehensive project to revitalize the city and
make it the North Shore center for tourism, banking and legal
services.
Members of the Salem Partnership -- a group of about 40 people
from varied backgrounds who are behind the project -- hope it will
culminate in Salem's designation as a national historic urban park,
a distinction attained by Lowell in 1978.
"Lowell clearly is a model," said National Park planner
Michael Spratt, on board a trackless trolley with the survey team
in Salem. The team is trying to identify key characters, ...