[CPEO-BIF] National Grid property, Newburyport, Massachusettts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Prime Port land eyed for clearing
National Grid submits request to demolish riverside buildings

By Lynne Hendricks
Newburyport Daily News (MA)
May 5, 2011
NEWBURYPORT - A proposal by National Grid to raze five of its six  
Water Street buildings has raised questions of whether the waterfront  
property is being prepared for sale.

National Grid told the Conservation Commission this week that the  
buildings - which include a maintenance facility, a small operations  
building, an office, a trailer and a storage shed - are no longer  
needed to support the company's waterfront substation.

Located between the U.S. Coast Guard Station and American Yacht Club,  
the electric com-pany's riverside parcel is a stone's throw from  
property owned by developer Stephen Karp that's reportedly being eyed  
for future development, including the city's first waterfront hotel.  
The 3-acre parcel is one of the largest privately owned pieces of  
land along the city's waterfront.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x340276127/Prime-Port-land-eyed- 
for-clearing

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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