Land 4 wind discussed at BOS meeting
I haven’t watched all of it yet, but the Enterprise has a short article about a discussion at last night’s BOS meeting regarding a proposal to to swap four parcels of town-owned land for the St. Luke’s Hospital property in downtown Middleboro . There has been talk of using the site for a police station. The building is currently vacant and looks to be in pretty rough shape. I have heard that it is completely gutted inside – which is a good thing. What surprised me in this article was that current proposals call for the building to be totally or partially demolished and rebuilt. That seems to make the project less viable.
I have serious doubts that any wind project could be done on some of the smaller parcels that are being discussed. If this ever goes forward, we’d better do something smart to prevent the land from being used for something we don’t want.
$11M to $16M!! I thought we were talking about $6M for a brand new station about a year ago.
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Conceptually I like the idea of turning the abandoned St. Luke’s into something that wasn’t such an eyesore but it has to make financial sense. From the quotes in the article it sounds like the selectmen are doing due diligence on this.
Themocracy
I like the idea. Local project, put some people to work. I see a new police station as something we need anyway. I’d rather the College have purchased the property and turned it into an expansion campus to serve our youth but I think that is off the table, right? This may open up some opportunity for the town to work on the intersection improvements there that I would like to see. If the dreaded casino does show up we will be ready with extra capacity. This project would need some language to gaurantee proper usage of the land. My biggest fear with the casino was land usage if (and when) the economy tanks enough to prohibit building a new billion dollar casino. I dont want to see 500 acres of low income housing on improperly regulated Indian owned land and 127 acres of “developer” owned spread through the town.
@Robert Pittsley
I think the college is still being discussed but for another site. I too like this idea but find the price tag a little high.
Agreed, the price tag NEEDS to be explained. A million just doesn’t mean what it used to I guess. Thats why I hope that they included a lot of on-site and off-site remediation and infrastructure in those numbers. I do remember something about a new station being around 6 million. As an aside, I live off of Oak and often walk / drive by the site. Its getting worse. I remember when I was a child I went there a few times while it was a hospital. Nice area. Now I get to go to “beautifull” downtown Taunton for my health care needs.