2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 15:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Great Barrington, Massachusetts affordable housing at New England Log Homes site
 
$15M boost for affordable housing at Great Barrington brownfield

By Heather Bellow
Berkshire Eagle (MA)

GREAT BARRINGTON - It is still a fenced-in, overgrown toxic field. But by 2020, it will be all cleaned up and ready for low-cost living in the heart of town.

The developer of a long-envisioned affordable housing complex scheduled for a 2.2-acre section of a brownfield has just received a significant state grant to build 45 rental units at 100 Bridge St. and Bentley Avenue.

The Community Development Corp. of South Berkshire on Thursday announced that it has been awarded a $15.4 million grant, which also will help pay for remediation of the entire 8-acre site.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/15m-boost-for-affordable-housing-at-great-barrington-brownfield,546069

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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>
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