2025 Power 100: Denis Dowdle
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Denis Dowdle, president of Madison Properties
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Much to the chagrin of many Worcester officials, Dowdle remains a powerful figure in the redevelopment of the city’s Canal District.
While he completed The Revington, a 228-unit, mixed-use building across Madison Street from the Polar Park baseball stadium, Madison Properties’ plans for other ballpark district developments — integral to the City of Worcester’s plan to pay for the $160-million publicly owned ballpark — have blown well past their projected groundbreaking deadlines.
The site of a planned hotel and second residential building in the Canal District owned by Madison sits unused. This comes as the City is increasingly ramping up pressure on him to sell the site of a planned biotech building sitting beyond Polar Park’s left field, with its bare foundation serving as a reminder to ballpark patrons the revitalization remains a work in progress.
Dowdle’s ongoing beef with the Worcester City Council and other officials hasn’t stopped him from adding more to his to-do list; in January, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester announced it would partner with Madison to redevelop the 13-acre former site of Rotmans Furniture, which sits across Interstate 290 from the university’s campus. Plans for that project remain in the early stages.
Even with promises unfulfilled, Dowdle will remain a Central Mass. power player as long as he holds the deed to prominent Worcester parcels.
Eric Casey is the managing editor at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the manufacturing and real estate industries.
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