[CPEO-BIF] Abandoned Rail Redevelopment, Lawrence, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

200K to Lawrence for Abandoned Rail Redevelopment Promise of Future  
Jobs and Rail Trail

by Tom Duggan
Valley Patriot (MA)
March 7, 2015

Lawrence, MA – Today Nancy Barmakian of the Environmental Protection  
Agency (EPA) and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas join Mayor Daniel Rivera  
to announce a $200,000 grant to plan for the future reuse and  
revitalization of the Manchester & Lawrence Rail Road (MLRR) line.  
Lawrence was one of 20 communities nation-wide selected to receive  
EPA’s Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant.

The grant will focus on ways to better use the MLRR for unlocking  
underutilized commercial parcels and transform the rail line to  
passive recreation and open space. The study area will go from  
Merrimack Street, where EPA has already committed funds for asbestos  
remediation of the Merrimac Paper site, to Manchester Street, at  
which the rail trail will connect to the award-winning Spicket River  
Greenway.

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For the entire article, see
http://valleypatriot.com/200k-to-lawrence-for-abandoned-rail- 
redevelopment-promise-of-future-jobs-and-rail-trail/

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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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