If Lowell is your home, this is your place

Plus, walking away to avoid “rewarding” a landlord who clearly broke his word sounds noble on paper, but in reality, it would completely backfire on the hardworking taxpayers. Because the Lowell Senior Center isn't just an empty office building, it has industrial kitchens for daily meals, medical transport services, and critical veteran programs. So if the city just packed up and rented some random commercial space somewhere else, the cost to entirely gut, retrofit, and rebuild to meet state building codes would end up costing the hardworking taxpayers millions more than this purchase price. Also, a “principled” exit would only succeed in punishing two groups, the hardworking taxpayers, and the veterans/seniors, who would have their lifeline completely disrupted. Believe me, the city council didn't reward a developer, instead, they executed a hard-nosed corporate decision to save a very critical city service. They were making a practical and calculated business choice and not an emotional one.