/ New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell spoke Wednesday about plans to redevelop the Cannon Street Power Station as a staging facility for offshore wind.
The Port of New Bedford is getting a makeover.
Mayor Jon Mitchell announced Wednesday that the shuttered Cannon Street Power Station, just south of downtown, will be demolished, and the site will be redeveloped as a staging area for the offshore industry.
The 30-acre waterfront site will become the city’s second dedicated offshore wind staging area, where turbines can be assembled prior to installation at windfarms planned off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Mitchell said the redevelopment will allow New Bedford to win more contracts in the rapidly growing industry. The Biden administration estimates that by 2030 offshore windfarms will generate tens of billions of dollars and provide 44,000 jobs nationwide.
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This week: A week after a cyber attack, the Steamship Authority has lashed together some provisional fixes; and a sexual assault is reported on a ferry. Barnstable will be looking for a new School Superintendent. And the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce gets drawn into the machine gun range controversy.
We have those stories and more, as CAI News Director Steve Junker speaks with some of the region’s leading journalists.
This week s guests include CAI s Jennette Barnes and Sam Houghton; Brian Dowd of the Martha s Vineyard Times; Tim Wood of the Cape Cod Chronicle; Ed Miller of the Provincetown Independent; Josh Balling of the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror; Noah Asimow of the Vineyard Gazette; and CAI s Daniel Ackerman and Eve Zuckoff.