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Park plan unveiled; security still a concern
PATERSON -- Imagine learning about the city's history, hiking through a stretch of woods and climbing the ruins of an old silk mill -- all in one place. Welcome to "Paterson's New Outdoor Living Room," or the Great Falls State Park. Plans for the urban oasis -- part industrialized, part open space, with the 77-foot-tall Great Falls as its centerpiece -- were unveiled at a public hearing Saturday afternoon at the Paterson Museum. .
Details given on mill project
PITTSFIELD A group interested in converting the former A.H. Rice Silk Mill into a "mixed income, multi-generational community" hopes to begin construction on the first phase of the project next spring. The next step, they said, is to pursue the necessary change in zoning for the site, which currently is designated as residential, to a mixed-use classification. Roy Krantz of Boston, and his partner, Brookline resident Sam Levine, who owns a home in Otis, purchased the former mill at 55 Spring Street for $250,000 in August 2006. The partners told the Community Development Board last night they are interested in transforming the 129-year-old property, which consists of 10 buildings on three acres, into an "urban village" for artists, craftspeople and creative professionals to live and work.
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