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‘A point of no return’: Holyoke’s Gateway City Arts closing; owners offer arts complex for sale Updated Dec 11, 2020; Facebook Share HOLYOKE — Gateway City Arts, closed since July due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cannot go on and is for sale, its owners announced Friday. Gateway City is a sprawling complex on Race Street with two performance spaces, galleries, workshops, offices and restaurants: Judd’s, The Bistro and Race Street Tacos. Its development over the past decade has been seen as a sign of rebirth in the city’s canal district. “Really we would like to find someone who wo...

They're aware of that? are the lawmakers aware of that? >> oh, i think that everybody is aware of that. look, i mean best solution and this is going to be the hardest thing to do is actually pull both sides together, stick them in the room and say look, everybody sort of take a whack at this and start to make something that's -- i mean there is always going to be a portion of society that is going to feel the pinch more than another part of the society. but try to make something that is much more affordable, a lot less loopholes, a lot less mandates, a lot less taxes and start making, you know...

there are several departments responding to the fire. still attempting to put it out. all of our employees and anybody who was visiting the plant at the time the fire began has been evacuated and accounted for. so that was obviously our first concern. everybody is out and safe. >> i want to ask about this wedgeworth elementary school which is in that area. so if everyone is safe, does that mean that the school has been closed or where are the students at this point? >> that i don't know. they're not in visual range. we are next to a college that has been evacuated. as far as the elem...