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The City is looking to redevelop several vacant properties
The future of vacant brownfields sites in the North End has been the focus of an area-wide planning study launched by the City of New Bedford and the Massachusetts Brownfields Support Team (BST) earlier this summer. The City’s Environmental Stewardship and Planning Departments have worked with the BST and the US EPA and community leaders to engage the Bullard Street area neighborhood in planning efforts.
The City is looking to redevelop several vacant properties in the neighborhood in a way that best matches the needs of the community. These properties include the Dawson Brewery site at 29 Brook Street, the western portion of the Elco Dress site at the corner of Church and Collette and the 3.2 acre Payne Cutlery site at 295 Phillips Avenue, which comprises most of the block bounded by Church, Coffin Avenue and Oneko Lane. In addition, the study has explored future uses of the Phillips Avenue School at the corner of Ashley Boulevard and Phillips Avenue.
The initial workshop, held on July 18th, focused on listening to community members regarding strengths, needs, and opportunities for the neighborhood. The City’s planning team, led by McCabe Enterprises, also solicited comments for a period of several weeks following the July workshop through comment boxes left at a number of neighborhood locations. The planning team has assembled this information and will be presenting its findings for further discussion at a follow-up workshop on Monday September 9, 2013 at St. Anthony of Padua Church (basement – Nye Street entrance) starting at 6:30 pm.
The Workshop will be translated for persons who wish to participate in Portuguese and Spanish.
Participating partner organizations include the City of New Bedford, US EPA, MassDEP (Department of Environmental Protection), and MassDevelopment. The City has retained multi-disciplinary planning and development team headed McCabe Enterprises, planners and economic development specialists, in conjunction with Pare Corporation, engineers and scientists; Carol R Johnson Associates, landscape architects, and Paul Lukez Architecture, urban design and visualization.
