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- $9.1M waterfront overhaul work begins (8/5/14)
Standing in a sunny gravel lot near the Burlington bike path, Mayor Miro Weinberger heralded the city's new project, called Waterfront Access North, as the most significant infrastructure development on the waterfront in about two decades
- Springfield seeking options for old fire stations (7/24/14)
As city officials consider potential reuses of four long-closed fire stations in Springfield, their hopes are boosted by a recent report outlining success stories from around Massachusetts and beyond
- Board OKs plans for new recycling facility in Freetown (4/1/14)
FREETOWN — After several months of deliberations, the Planning Board approved plans for a national recycling company to develop a facility in town. Earlier this month, Republic Recycling was given the green light to turn the former Weyerhaeuser building on Campanelli Drive into an 85,000-square-foot facility.
- Handful of developers attend first public session with officials working on Providence’s Route 195 redevelopment (3/10/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A handful of residential developers and engineers turned out Tuesday at the first public session with officials responsible for selling 19 acres of former highway land now available for development in the capital city.
- Battle over CMP’s rate proposal pits profits against renewable advocates (2/24/14)
Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, has spent the better part of three years pitching Brunswick Landing as the epicenter of an emerging clean energy market in Maine and is nearly ready to seal a deal with a company that intends to build an anaerobic digester at the former Navy base. Until recently, he had no inkling that goal also would put Brunswick Landing in a high-stakes policy battle with Central Maine Power Co.
- Wind energy utility leasing more than 7,000 acres of land Down East (7/25/14)
TRESCOTT — Atlantic Wind, a subsidiary of a global utility business, has leased thousands of acres in two coastal communities and is gathering data to assess the feasibility of a wind energy project there.
- Wind farm developer seeks lease at Quonset Business Park (7/10/14)
The developer of a wind farm proposed for the waters of Nantucket Sound is seeking to lease property at the Quonset Business Park for a staging and assembly area for the 130-turbine project.
- Developers urge Mayor Walsh to clarify BRA process (4/1/14)
Boston’s new mayor, Martin J. Walsh, has repeatedly promised that the city’s building boom would continue under his administration, even as he vowed a top-to-bottom overhaul of its chief planning agency.
- Portland’s waterfront gets renewed interest (2/24/14)
From east to west and everything in between, Portland's waterfront is changing.
- Wastewater treatment plant to be site of largest NH solar project (2/21/14)
The town of Peterborough, N.H., recently announced that its wastewater treatment plant will be the site of the state’s largest solar installation to date. It will be built on a five-acre area -- formerly a wastewater lagoon -- that lies adjacent to the facility