GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The town is using its latest round of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to inject more than $1 million into local affordable housing initiatives, food.
Unsure of when pollution from the Ried Cleaners site next door will be cleaned up, the post office has installed six air purifiers. They ve also had to do work in
The food-supply chain is shaky, the coronavirus pandemic revealed. Great Barrington is beginning a project that would help more people grow healthy food, and afford to buy it.
The former mill building known as Cookâs Garage, as seen from across the Housatonic River in Housatonic village. Town officials are exploring a fiber-optic broadband system for Housatonic that they believe might help attract developers and businesses to old mill buildings. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
GREAT BARRINGTON â Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that would help bring broadbandâs gold standard into a village whose vacant mills and other old buildings cry for reawakening.
With broadband, itâs rarely quick â workers have to go pole by pole to investigate the capacity of each, and learn from National Grid and Verizon what it all might cost.
A multiuse complex in Great Barrington that included new market-rate apartments in 2018, just before completion. The town has been recognized for its commitment to new housing development. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
GREAT BARRINGTON â In an honor that could lead to money for more projects to build new housing stock, the Baker administration announced Wednesday that it designated the town a Housing Choices community for supporting the creation of new abodes of all types.
At a news conference at a Quincy homeless shelter, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kennealy named Great Barrington one of eight municipalities in the state that recently have qualified for the designation under the Housing Choice Initiative. Six others were re-designated. A total of 78 communities have received it since Gov. Charlie Baker launched it in 2017.