[CPEO-BIF] "On a former brownfield site, an environmentally friendly Newburyport [Massachusetts] rental community grows"

[Lenny Siegel]

On a former brownfield site, an environmentally friendly Newburyport rental community grows

Linda Laban 
Boston Real Estate (MA)
January 19, 2021 

Community-focused, environmentally friendly living.

That’s how Hall and Moskow Property Management and Development describes its ambitious net-positive Hillside Center for Sustainable Living in Newburyport, which recently completed phase one.

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Given that the development is located on a former brownfield site, once a dump for coal ash and trucks and cars, a massive cleanup operation preceded the construction of the development, let alone any edible plantings.

“We pulled 110 semis worth of soil out of here. What’s left is clean,” Hall confirmed.

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For the entire article, see
http://realestate.boston.com/new-developments/2021/01/19/hillside-newburyport-rentals/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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