Planners promise 10-to-1 payback with $6.4B to $9.4B Hartford-Springfield-Boston rail proposal
Updated May 06, 2021;
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SPRINGFIELD The Springfield/Hartford area has missed out on 130,000 new jobs since 1990, jobs that could have come here if the region had the commuter rail service enjoyed by other East Coast cities.
“That’s the major differentiating factor, the availability of rail,” said Jessica Jones, senior analyst for the engineering firm AECOM.
Improving rail service from New York City to Boston through Hartford, Springfield and Worcester could cost $6.4 billion to $9.4 billion over a 10-year-buildout. But that expenditure would yield $47 billion to $84 billion in new gross regional product over 30 years, according to a study AECOM prepared for Connecticut’s Capital Region Council of Governments and the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in Springfield.
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts honor the late Tim Brennan; seek nominees for Exemplar Award
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SPRINGFIELD Even though Tim Brennan would have wanted to step back from the spotlight, colleagues from the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts have created an award honoring of the man they remember as the “face and voice for the region.”
And the organizations are seeking nominees from among the Pioneer Valley’s nonprofit organizations that mirror Brennan’s dedication to community while adapting to changing economic and cultural landscapes.
Nonprofits may be nominated or self-nominate through May 14 at tinyurl.com/brennanaward. The Planning Commission will announce the recipient of the inaugural Tim Brennan Exemplar Award at its annual meeting in June.
Around Amherst: Boltwood garage getting gallery; poets getting spruced up
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Bringing new public art to the area of the Boltwood parking garage and restoring a downtown sculpture are projects being undertaken by the Amherst Public Art Commission this spring.
Commission Chairman Bill Kaizen said the Boltwood Gallery is a project slated to open in late June on the upper level of the garage that will be situated at the defunct “Poem Windows” exhibit.
More details about the project, supported by $2,000 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Recovery and Rebuilding Grant through the downtown cultural district, will be announced in the coming weeks.
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts honor the late Tim Brennan; seek nominees for Exemplar Award MassLive.com 5/3/2021 Jim Kinney, masslive.com
SPRINGFIELD Even though Tim Brennan would have wanted to step back from the spotlight, colleagues from the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts have created an award honoring of the man they remember as the “face and voice for the region.”
And the organizations are seeking nominees from among the Pioneer Valley’s nonprofit organizations that mirror Brennan’s dedication to community while adapting to changing economic and cultural landscapes.
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