People’s Savings OKs grant for senior housing
NEW BEDFORD – People’s Saving Bank has awarded a $250,000 grant and a $250,000 mortgage under the Affordable Housing Program administered by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to the New Bedford Housing Authority. The money will be used in conjunction with the $4.1 million HUD HOPE VI program for renovation of the Caroline Street Collaborative Senior Housing Development while instituting medical center services for the elderly tenants and neighborhood residents. The new community center will include a supportive living and medical center. New Bedford becomes only the fifth city in the country operating the model project. The others are Allegheny, Penn., Mobile, Ala. Miami, Florida, and Cambridge, Mass.
New office park planned for Bellingham
BELLINGHAM – A new office park is planned for this community at the intersection of Route 126 and Exit 18 from Route 495. The office park to be developed by WS Development Associates, LP of Chestnut Hill is still subject to planning board approval. Called Bellingham Corporate Park, the site will be designed to include 10 office buildings, four hotels, research and development space, restaurants, a health club and a day care center. Site engineering is being done by Rizzo Associates of Natick. Completion is planned for 2002.
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Telecom hotel opening in September forecast
NATICK – Developers of a proposed “telecom hotel” on the site of the former Wonder Bread bakery here are predicting the arrival of their first tenants in September. Developers Rabins Realty Inc. of Scarsdale, N.Y. and Rose Associates announced they would begin renovating the former bakery within a week of this newspaper’s publication date. The project, called TechCommons, will offer 300,000 square feet of space for telecom carriers, Internet providers, e-commerce and new media companies with direct access to fiber-optic lines in the Massachusetts Turnpike right of way. This project is one of several such telecom hotel projects in the Boston area.
More Hanscom flights win first approval
BEDFORD – The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved more shuttle flights between Hanscom Field here and LaGuardia Airport in New York City despite objections from three congressmen, not to mention angry residents. The proposal by Shuttle America and U.S. Airways Express now moves to the Federal Aviation Agency for consideration. Shuttle America wants to add six more daily flights starting in September. U.S. Airways proposes seven round trip flights daily to LaGuardia beginning in October.
Communities’ bid for ‘open access’ spurned
BOSTON – The state Department of Telecommunications and Energy has ruled that four Massachusetts towns have no authority to require AT&T to provide access to other Internet service providers as part of its takeover of MediaOne franchises, including its Road-Runner affiliated high-speed cable modem service. The communities rebuffed are Cambridge, North Andover, Quincy and Somerville. The four are part of a growing movement seeking high speed Internet access for all Internet service providers. Cable companies, on the other hand, see the movement as an effort of ISPs, such as America On Line, to gain access to high speed cable without having to pay for the huge investment companies like AT&T have made in designing, building and developing the service. The ruling is subject to appeal to the full DTE commission.
An ‘All the Ingredients’ campaign
QUINCY — Stop & Shop Supermarket Company recently launched its new branding campaign entitled, “All the Ingredients.” The new campaign, designed by Arnold Communications, highlights the company’s product selection, prices, quality, people and long-standing commitment to the community. The campaign will be unveiled through print and media advertisements and will be incorporated into all of the company’s in-store signage and publications.
Mass. announces health care review, analysis
BOSTON – Gov. Paul Cellucci announced the appointment of a 39-member task force to come up with a plan to redesign “all areas of health care” in the state. The panel is to be led by former Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Herbert Wilkins and Brandeis University Professor Stuart Altman. Among the assignments for the task force are to chart reform on how to reduce the number of uninsured citizens and improve access to care; determine how to bolster care providers financial viability; decide how to pay for care and streamline care delivery, and judge how to regulate providers and improve health care outcomes and quality. The panel has been given a target date of the end of 2001 to come up with recommendations.
