[CPEO-BIF] Sprague Electric, North Adams, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Going, Going, Gone ... Brown St. Mill Bites the Dust

By Tammy Daniels
iBerkshires.com (MA)
September 19, 2007


NORTH ADAMS - The former Sprague Electric Co. plant on Brown Street has 
slowly been disappearing over the past several months, taking with it a 
chunk of the city's industrial history.

The brick mill buildings are being demolished by owner Great American 
Financial Resources, which has no immediate plans for the property other 
than leaving it a vacant lot. The buildings have been empty since 2001, 
when Commonwealth Sprague - one of the last vestige's of the city's 
manufacturing titan - departed for Mexico.

The polluted three-acre site has had environmental remediation done in 
the mid-1980s and over the last decade or so under the state Department 
of Environmental Protection. Most of that work has been completed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.iberkshires.com/story/24478/Going-Going-Gone-...-Brown-St.-Mill-Bites-the-Dust.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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