What will happen 100 years after Gardner MA Mayor Nicholson’s State of the City Address?
Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson delivers the State of the City Address on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 7pm. Undoubtedly, he will cover the accomplishments of the past couple of years and what’s in the works going forward. Our photo is of a place which doesn’t exist, anywhere…. It is a photo generated by highly sophisticated Artificial Intelligence based on various keywords we input – generating a possible future view of Gardner in 2123. It shows a larger Gardner City Hall, Chair City Energy handling Gardner’s municipal power needs, a 30+ story building replacing the Binnall House called Connors Commons, the Telemail Center replacing the U.S. Post Office, and a Public Safety Complex.
Population Projection
At Gardner’s current population growth rate of ½% per year, the population of the Chair City in 2123 will be over 35,000 people. Keep in mind, however, that if Gardner had a growth rate of .5% in the last 100 years, the current population would be over 28,000 instead of approximately 21,500. Our calculations did not account for any downturns in the economy or society.