[CPEO-BIF] West Harwich Schoolhouse, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Town seeks proposals to develop old W. Harwich Schoolhouse

By Jamie Balliett
Cape Codder (MA)
October 10, 2012

Harwich - Back to school?

Some of Harwich’s historic properties, like the Old Rec Building and  
the South Harwich Meetinghouse, have gotten much attention over the  
last few years. Not the West Harwich School. It sits boarded up on an  
overgrown lot on Bells Neck Road.

This is not the first time the town has tried to develop the  
property, located just a stone’s throw from the First Baptist Church  
on the corner of Route 28 and Depot Street.  The Harwich Ecumenical  
Council for the Homeless signed an agreement with the town to develop  
the property in 2009 with 12 affordable housing units. That project  
was halted when a plume of underground pollution was discovered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/harwich/news/x233634833/Town-seeks- 
proposals-to-develop-old-W-Harwich-Schoolhouse

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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