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SETTING SITES HIGHER: Will $40M initiative aimed at creating more pad-ready industrial space in R.I. pay off?

OCCUPANTS WANTED: Raymond Goff, Burrillville’s planning director and economic development coordinator, visits the entrance to the town’s commerce park, which has remained mostly unused for many years. Town officials are hoping to change that. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
OCCUPANTS WANTED: Raymond Goff, Burrillville’s planning director and economic development coordinator, visits the entrance to the town’s commerce park, which has remained mostly unused for many years. Town officials are hoping to change that. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

When Burrillville officials unveiled plans to create a second industrial park in the rural town in the early 2000s to bring in jobs and tax dollars, they were met with praise from regional business leaders who commended the idea as innovative and “very progressive.” Now more than 20 years later, most of the land that

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