Metro Center is the original colonial settlement of Springfield, Massachusetts, located beside a bend in the Connecticut River. As of 2019, Metro Center features a majority of Western Massachusetts' most important cultural, business, and civic venues.[1] Metro Center includes Springfield's Central Business District, its Club Quarter, its government center, its convention headquarters, and in recent years, it has become an increasingly popular residential district, especially among young professionals, empty-nesters, and creative types, with a population of approximately 7,000 (2010.)
Metro Center is physically separated from the Connecticut River by Interstate 91 – a 1958 urban renewal project that separated the city from its riverfront.[2][3]
- ^ Zimmerman/Volk Associates, Residential Market Potential, Downtown Springfield, for City of Springfield, December 2006
- ^ "Interstate 91-Massachusetts". www.bostonroads.com. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ City of Springfield, Mass.: Metro Center Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Springfieldcityhall.com (2010-06-02). Retrieved on 2013-08-21.