[CPEO-BIF] Former Norton Co. demolition, Worcester, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Norton Co. buildings under demolition, 51-acre site to be reclaimed, redeveloped

By Craig S. Semon
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (KA)
December 16, 2023

WORCESTER – If you’re driving along Interstate 190 and glance at the Saint-Gobain industrial campus in the Greendale section of the city, you may notice that some of the long-standing factory buildings that used to be the home of the old Norton Co. are being demolished.

Not only are the buildings being leveled, the demolition project is also part of the largest brownfield reclamation project ever in Massachusetts and quite possibly New England, according to Worcester Business Development Corp. President Craig L. Blais.

“Right now, just for the reclamation, just for the cleanup and the demolition and all the infrastructure, we’re over $50 million just to get this site ready,” Blais said.  “And then this would be upward of $500 million once it’s all redeveloped. So this is a big deal.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.telegram.com/story/business/real-estate/2023/12/16/former-norton-co-site-under-demolition-site-to-be-redeveloped/71933866007/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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