Newburyport Downtown Group Works to Save Inn Street

The Newburyport Current reports that the Downtown Group involved in revitalizing the Newburyport waterfront district in the 1970’s has reemerged in an effort to save and restore the Inn Street fountain, which has grown into disrepair in the last few years.  Once considered the showpiece of the Newburyport waterfront revival, the Inn Street fountain is now decaying and is surrounded by smashed in lights, broken benches, missing bricks, dangerous depressions and blackened chewing gum.

The Downtown Group began to reverse the trend last spring when Sheriff Frank Cousins supplied a group of inmates for a spring-cleaning of downtown. Several concrete columns on Inn Street were also reinforced with the help of developer Wayne Capolupo and his SPS New England of Salisbury and some bricks were put back in place.

According to the Newburyport Current, next on the agenda is installing a water recycling system that will allow the fountain to run this summer. They have raised $30,000 of the $40,000 price tag; then, they plan to turn their attention to the lights, the bricks, and finally, the turrets. The ultimate goal is to establish a pool of money for future upkeep of downtown, to fix issues before they turn into thousand-dollar problems.

Read the entire Newburyport Current article.