NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and state and local leaders have announced a massive redevelopment of the former Eversource/Sprague power plant that they said would likely bring thousands of jobs to the city.
Most of the 29-acre site will be leveled to make way for new offshore wind staging, fish offloading, and mixed commercial buildings, Mitchell told the crowd gathered in the MacArthur Drive parking lot on Wednesday afternoon.
The power plant s iconic big cigarette smokestack, as the mayor said his daughter calls it, will also go.
Eversource and Sprague have agreed to sell their portions of the property to a private local investment group called Cannon Street Holdings, LLC, headed by New Bedford businessman Andrew Saunders.
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