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Manchester, New Hampshire is made up of 25 neighborhoods within the city, according to the Manchester Planning Board in its 2010 Master Plan.〔http://www.manchesternh.gov/website/Departments/PlanningCommDev/MasterPlan/tabid/1421/Default.aspx〕 Recognition of particular neighborhoods varies, with some having neighborhood associations, but none of have any legal or political authority. The major neighborhoods, historically, include Amoskeag, Rimmon Heights, Notre Dame/McGregorville and Piscataquog/Granite Square on the West Side; and the North End, Janeville/Corey Square, Hallsville and Bakersville on the East Side; along with Youngsville and Goffes Falls on the periphery of the city.〔http://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/Size4/D0115/2023042.jpg?userid=15&username=lunaadmin&resolution=4&servertype=JVA&cid=8&iid=RUMSEY&vcid=NA&usergroup=Rumsey3x&profileid=13〕 In 2007, the city began a Neighborhood Initiatives program to "insure that our neighborhoods are vibrant, livable areas since these are the portions of the city where most of the residents spend their time living, playing, shopping and going to school."〔http://www.yourmanchesternh.com/plans-and-projects/current-projects.aspx〕 The purpose of this initiative is to foster vibrancy and redevelopment in the neighborhoods, and to restore the sense of neighborhood communities that had been overlooked in the city for some time. The city began the program with street-scape and infrastructure improvements in the Rimmon Heights neighborhood of the West Side, which has spurred growth and investment in and by the community.〔http://www.nhpr.org/node/16970〕 Despite the success of the program in Rimmon Heights, it was unclear in recent years how the City planned to implement similar programs throughout the city. The City announced plans for extending the Neighborhood Initiatives program to the Hollow neighborhood in February 2012.〔http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120211/NEWS15/120219990〕 ==Downtown== Downtown Manchester is the historical, economic and cultural heart of the city, and a center of finance for the state. It is also the focal point for dining and nightlife in the Greater Manchester area. Located along the east bank of the Merrimack River, Downtown consists of the Downtown Core centered along Elm Street between Bridge and Granite streets, the Millyard consisting of the former Amoskeag mills, the "NOB" (North of Bridge), and South Downtown between Granite Street and Queen City Avenue. Within these larger areas are smaller districts, such as the Gaslight and Warehouse districts in Downtown South, the Cultural District centered on the Victory Park Historic District in the Downtown Core, and the River's Edge in South Downtown. Downtown suffered high vacancy rates following the closure of several downtown-based banks in the early 1990s. It has witnessed a resurgence in recent years, however, including the continual redevelopment of the Amoskeag Millyard and its residential Historic District, and the construction of the Verizon Wireless Arena and Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. (Intown Manchester ), a non-profit management company was created in 1996 and contracted by the City to maintain, beautify, promote and improve Downtown. In response to the improvements area, Downtown experienced a 19.7% increase in residents between 2000 and 2010.〔http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map〕 The increasing popularity of downtown living has caused many properties originally built as tenement housing for mill workers in the 19th century to be converted to stylish, eclectic residential condominiums. Many new retail stores and higher education institutions have been uniquely retro-fitted into properties along Commercial Street and Canal Street. The Millyard is also home to several corporate offices, including Dyn, Deka, Texas Instruments and Eversource Energy New Hampshire. In addition to the growth in retail, dining, residential and entertainment venues, Downtown has also seen a growth in post-secondary and cultural institutions in recent decades. The Palace Theatre has anchored a revitalized Hanover Street since its reopening in 1973. The New Hampshire Institute of Art is located in the Victory Park National Historic District, and the University of New Hampshire at Manchester concentrated its campus in the Millyard between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences opened a secondary campus in the NOB. Downtown is home to northern New England's tallest buildings. City Hall Plaza is the tallest New England building north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, followed closely by the all-black Brady Sullivan Plaza—shorter than City Hall Plaza by only a few feet—both of which are 20 stories high. Other prominent buildings in the Downtown skyline include Manchester's original "skyscraper," the New Hampshire headquarters of Citizens Bank located in the Amoskeag Bank building; Brady-Sullivan Tower, formerly known as New Hampshire Tower; the Carpenter Center; the Wall Street Tower; and Anthem Tower. Viewed from the west and from I-293, the vertical lines of these buildings are contrasted with the massive, horizontal Millyard below them along the banks of the Merrimack River. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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