[CPEO-BIF] Ludlow Mill Complex, Ludlow, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A New Spin

Westmass Unveils Ambitious Plans for a Ludlow Mill Complex

By GEORGE O'BRIEN
Business West (MA)
August 18, 2008

Westmass Area Development Corp. is finalizing acquisition of the 
sprawling Ludlow Manufacturing Associates complex, which was once the 
largest jute-making facility in the world. Westmass administrators say 
the ambitious initiative, which blends elements of greenfield and 
brownfield development, could, over the next 15 to 20 years, attract 
perhaps $300 million in private-sector investments and create more than 
2,000 jobs.

It's a powerful image - a lithograph (date unknown) that depicts the 
sprawling Ludlow Manufacturing Associates complex that gave the 
community its identity - both literally and figuratively.

Indeed, Ludlow has been known throughout most of its 234-year existence 
as a mill town, and it was known as Jute City - that's the product 
(twine) that was made at the complex. Meanwhile, the clock tower on the 
northwest corner of what was known years ago as Mill No. 8 has become 
perhaps the town's most identifiable landmark. It appears on the town 
seal, the masthead of the local weekly newspaper, the Register, Ludlow 
High School class rings, and many other places.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.businesswest.com/details.asp?id=1683

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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