2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:35:54 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Failed housing plan, Worcester, Massachusetts
 
Great idea — What went wrong?
City lot once envisioned as showcase of affordable housing
WATCHDOG REPORTING

By Shaun Sutner
WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE (MA)
 March 6, 2011


WORCESTER -  Great things were expected for 48 Mason St.

The group of local businessmen and affordable housing developers who bought the property in the run-down Piedmont neighborhood for $67,000 from the city six years ago envisioned cleaning up the contaminated lot and putting up 11 town homes, four of which would be sold to low- income buyers.

But while the environmental cleanup of the former linen manufacturing plant was completed - courtesy of a $400,000 federal brownfields grant secured by the Worcester Common Ground community development corporation - the housing plan fell apart.

The 1.1-acre lot became a repository for trash and illegal dumping, a neglected eyesore in a neighborhood that has begun to rebound recently from years of economic distress.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.telegram.com/article/20110306/NEWS/103060538/0/NEWS06

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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