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I’ve only lived here 15 years, so I had never heard of the Center City Committee until I read Marie’s post which caused me to visit their excellent and informative website. I learned about the history of the committee, which started out in 1972 with a grant from the New England Regional Commission (now defunct) as a public/private partnership that endures to this day, now as a private non profit corporation that has been involved in many of the initiatives that have transformed the city in the last two decades. If you look at the list of members, you will notice an impressive mixture of businesses, agencies and citizen groups with the names attached of many of Lowell’s movers and shakers. Their meeting schedule is also impressive (weekly, informal gatherings as well as monthly stakeholder meetings) and indicates high energy and a sense of purpose. As Marie points out, the Center City Committee will now be blogging on the Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) blog. This will be a great way to keep up with what this group is planning to do next, because we are all stakeholders in Lowell’s downtown!