[CPEO-BIF] Merrimac Paper Company site, Lawrence, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reinventing Merrimac Paper mill
Redevelopment of site takes shape in Lawrence

By Allison Corneau acorneau@eagletribune.com
North Andover Eagle-Tribune (MA)
October 19, 2020

LAWRENCE — Six years after fire ripped through the Merrimac Paper Company site, plans are underway to redevelop the 19th-century paper mill on the south bank of the Merrimack River.

City officials and local environmental experts held a virtual public meeting over Zoom last week to outline the first of many steps necessary to redevelop the site before overhauling the property that once employed as many as 275 people. The former paper company on South Canal Street sits on three lots totaling 4.75 acres, according to a study prepared by Credere Associates, the firm hired by the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission to analyze Brownfields cleanup alternatives.

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While final plans for the site have not been determined, those involved hope that residential and commercial mixed-use buildings, along with parking and a riverfront walkway, eventually take over the property.
 
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For the entire article, see
https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/reinventing-merrimac-paper-mill/article_e697bd88-6a98-5662-9bb7-61f15abd9a79.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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