2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 29 Sep 2006 00:47:37 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Woonsocket (RI) schools
 
Hamlet Avenue site picked for new middle schools

Planned are two independent schools on a 20-acre site.

BY CYNTHIA NEEDHAM
Providence Journal (RI)
September 22, 2006

WOONSOCKET -- The city's long-awaited new middle schools will be located at what is now a sweeping mill complex along the Blackstone River off Hamlet Avenue.

The 20-acre site, best known in recent years for its massive mill fires, will feature two independent schools on either end of what will become an academic campus, with room for playing fields landscaping and parking lots in the middle.

...

The city has struggled to find new life for the old complex. While other former mills were reborn as condominiums and industrial space, the Hamlet Avenue complex sat mostly uninhabited with rehabilitation projects stalled on the issue of environmental cleanup -- developers didn't want to pay to remediate and the city could not afford to do so. Meanwhile, two mill fires have further damaged the run-down mills.

Were it to be repurposed as a school, the site could be remediated using state education funds. (The generous estimate cost for that cleanup, between $2.5 million and $4 million, is included in the $78.8 price tag).

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.projo.com/north/content/projo_20060922_wms22.30e9369.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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