LYNN – Mayor Jared C. Nicholson is running for re-election.

Nicholson, the 59th mayor of the city, will formally announce his intention to seek a second 4-year term at an annual birthday fundraiser Monday night.

“Lynn’s time is now,” Nicholson said. “What so many have talked about as potential is starting to become a reality. We have unparalleled access to public infrastructure resources and private investment. And we have a terrific team in place in City Hall, my partners in elected office, and our community and business leaders.”

Nicholson was elected mayor in 2021 and took office on Jan. 3, 2022, promising to focus on inclusive growth through better schools, housing, jobs and infrastructure.

“Our job now, and my plan for the next four years, is to make sure that we continue to make the most of these opportunities and that they translate into gains for the residents of Lynn,” Nicholson said. “To do that we need inclusive and balanced growth. We need strong execution of core city functions and successful implementation of our many plans with equity in mind.”

Nicholson’s accomplishments in his first term include: leading the city’s recovery from the pandemic, increasing the number of jobs in Lynn to pre-pandemic levels and higher, opening a new senior center, lining up the largest private investment in the city’s history – $450 million at the South Harbor site on the Lynnway – and paving a record number of roads this year. A new Pickering Middle School is scheduled to open in January 2026.

“We have done this with fiscal discipline, achieving upgrades from our ratings agencies that are hard to come by,” Nicholson said. “We have implemented a successful inclusionary zoning policy that has already created affordable units for Lynn residents and an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that is supporting the creation of hundreds of units at deeper levels of affordability.”

Under Nicholson, the city has placed an emphasis on cleanliness, placing dozens of new, high-tech waste barrels in parks, playgrounds and parking lots. There have also been other upgrades to parks and playgrounds, installation of turf fields, and more open space created on the waterfront.

Prior to being elected mayor, Nicholson served three terms on the Lynn School Committee and was a law professor at Northeastern University, where he worked with small businesses. Nicholson formerly worked as a business lawyer for start-ups and as a legal services attorney in Lynn, providing free legal help to small businesses in support of community growth.

A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School who is fluent in Spanish, Nicholson lives in Lynn with his wife and two sons.