One draw of Lowell is its location ... The city embraces its history and the storied Lowell mill girls. A city motto is “There’s a lot to like about Lowell.” Cheesy? Maybe to some.

As important, Forrant said, is the flavor a development such as Mill No. 5 will add to downtown Lowell. The eclectic tone should help draw more artists and creative types to the area, giving it a ...

The blue, beaked mascot Rowdy the River Hawk marched, too, drawing delighted looks from passersby ... “I was really surprised to find out this was in Lowell,” Cullen said of Mill No. 5. “My marketing ...

Unlike earlier generations, when women dominated the workforce (as late as 1885, females constituted 65 percent of all of Lowell’s cotton mill workers ), immigrant ... in large numbers in spinning and ...

But that’s a speck on a drawing board ... Some of his books are full of Lowell, yet there’s never been a launching pad for a trip through Kerouac’s Mill City. There are Kerouac places ...

MILL NUMBER FIVE. TUCKED INTO THE UPPER FLOORS OF AN OLD TEXTILE MILL IN THE HEART OF LOWELL, IS A MIX OF CLASSIC AMERICANA AND DIAGON ALLEY. FROM THE BOUTIQUES TO THE COFFEE HOUSE TO THE MOVIE ...