From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:06:08 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "State denies $15M funding request" for affordable housing project, " Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
State denies $15M funding request for Bridge Street project HBy Heather Bellow BERKSHIRE EAGLE (MA) August 23, 2017 GREAT BARRINGTON - While state funding was recently denied for an affordable housing complex planned for a Bridge Street brownfield, the possibility of an assisted living facility on another part of the eight-acre site is raising hopes for the project's owner. The Department of Housing and Community Development recently rejected a roughly $15 million request by the Community Development Corporation of Southern Berkshire for a 45-unit project, according to CDC Executive Director Timothy Geller. And because the cleanup of toxic chemicals on the site is tied to the affordable housing construction, groundbreaking there will depend entirely on when the state money comes in, Geller added. … For the entire article, see http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/state-denies-15m-funding-request-for-bridge-st-cleanup-in-great-barrington,517509 -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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