[CPEO-BIF] Nu-Style jewelry manufacturing building, Franklin, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Franklin considers demolishing old Nu-Style building


By Brian Benson
Milford Daily News (MA)
April 4, 2011

FRANKLIN - A consultant is recommending the town demolish the former  
Nu-Style jewelry manufacturing building and remove contaminated soil  
from the property.
"It's a mess and we need to get rid of it," town Planning Director  
Bryan Taberner said of the 12,000-square-foot mill building on Grove  
Street. "You're talking a huge amount of money to (remove hazardous  
building materials, renovate the structure) and reuse it, so that's  
not necessarily something the town should be considering."

Instead, officials hope to use a $200,000 U.S. Environmental  
Protection Agency brownfields grant plus $40,000 in town money to  
tear down the building, which was condemned by the town's building  
inspector in 2005. If money remains, the town could look at removing  
some contaminated soil, Taberner said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.milforddailynews.com/topstories/x719609129/Franklin- 
considers-demolishing-old-Nu-Style-building

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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