Oct 13, 2026 ยท 45 min ยท 26 segments
With the ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง Annual Breakfast coming up October 20, Executive Director ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ง joins us to highlight the organization's historic efforts in shaping Lowell, the currentโฆ
And when you didn't, they said, all right, well, we got to we got to get LZ in there.
To me, it's one of those institutions that set Lowell apart from many gateway cities, many urban cities who once kind of the world around it changed and downtown stopped being what downtowns were and economic development kind of evolved.
We see it happen, and I don't mean to demean surrounding communities, but we saw it happen in Lawrence.
But, you know, the Brocktons of the world and all the others are still kind of struggling with that.
And the Wang Towers, dare I say, no Lowell Plan, no LDFC, no Wang, no Wang Towers, which is now the home of Middlesex Community College in downtown as well.
sort of spot on because, you know, it really took the leadership of folks, of course, Paul Tsongas.
Paul Tsongas was the brainchild behind the LDFC and the Lowell Plan five years later.
Paul Tsongas, of course, we know him as one of these people who wanted to be out front, who wanted to be cutting edge.
What could we think about as a city? And how do I get people together on this vision? And he really brought the banks together to say, look, together we can manage risk, but also invest collectively.
And the Wang Towers was brought about by a $5 million at the time urban development action grant called UDAG.
And so that initial project where we were helping Wang Towers get built and then those funds really helped spearhead additional many, you know, dozens of projects that would come later.
And when you didn't, they said, all right, well, we got to we got to get LZ in there.
To me, it's one of those institutions that set Lowell apart from many gateway cities, many urban cities who once kind of the world around it changed and downtown stopped being what downtowns were and economic development kind of evolved.
We see it happen, and I don't mean to demean surrounding communities, but we saw it happen in Lawrence.
But, you know, the Brocktons of the world and all the others are still kind of struggling with that.
And the Wang Towers, dare I say, no Lowell Plan, no LDFC, no Wang, no Wang Towers, which is now the home of Middlesex Community College in downtown as well.
sort of spot on because, you know, it really took the leadership of folks, of course, Paul Tsongas.
Paul Tsongas was the brainchild behind the LDFC and the Lowell Plan five years later.
Paul Tsongas, of course, we know him as one of these people who wanted to be out front, who wanted to be cutting edge.
What could we think about as a city? And how do I get people together on this vision? And he really brought the banks together to say, look, together we can manage risk, but also invest collectively.
And the Wang Towers was brought about by a $5 million at the time urban development action grant called UDAG.
And so that initial project where we were helping Wang Towers get built and then those funds really helped spearhead additional many, you know, dozens of projects that would come later.
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