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Groton ― A town committee is working on revising the town’s process for re-purposing more than 50 vacant, town-owned properties. For some town councilors, it is taking too long in a hot market, driven. ....
Published July 07. 2021 5:58PM Regarding The Mystic Education Center site at crossroads, (July 4), the Oral School project is a perfect example of the pitfalls of assumptions, especially unscientific ones. While the former school buildings look charming from a distance, close inspection reveals them to be old, derelict, and nothing of note. Town councilors assumed that retaining the existing buildings was unquestionably worthwhile, which is actually a decision that should be based on specific, in-depth research and economics. That assumption was, unfortunately, part of the RFP, which likely diminished the interest in the site, as it adds an enormous cost, as well as burdens the developer with maintaining and utilizing the existing buildings. ....