Why I Oppose the Building of RiverPlace, and Hudson Village

I’m just a guy who is enjoying the quality of life offered here in Hudson. I put my pants on one leg at a time just like you do. I do not want our lifestyle changed or altered in any way. My family has lived and grown up in Hudson, gone to the schools, grown up, married, and have children of their own. The lifestyle we lived here has been wonderful. I think that it is just crazy as h--- to change what is good about this town by allowing RiverPlace to be approved for building. That, and the mess that comes with it, that will be left to the townspeople when the developers have over-built the area, and moved out into their own quiet, peaceful town away from the chaos they left here for us to deal with, if the developments are approved. The only lifestyle enhancement will be to the developers, not the residents of Hudson.

I wrote to the papers when I saw the first indication of a 2.2 million square foot Mall was to be built on the Green Meadow Golf course’s 375 acres. To put in perspective exactly how big that piece of land really is, start at the entrance to the Pheasant Lane Mall, Point “A” in Nashua, and drive north towards the Sagamore Bridge entrance, Point “B” all of the land that you passed on DW Highway, across the Merrimack River, on your right, in Hudson, from “A to point B” makes up the proposed RiverPlace project, proposed for building in Hudson. That Mall, plus “Nottingham Place” and “Hudson Village Mall” across the street from RiverPlace, on Lowell Road will add 3.6 million square feet of retail space on less than a three-mile stretch of Lowell Road. Does that put the size of RiverPlace in Perspective for you? If built, and at full build out, it will be the Largest Mall in New England.

Why I Oppose the Building of RiverPlace, and Hudson Village

Ron Peters - Hudson