An Act providing for the disposition of certain property at Northampton State Hospital, 1994 (PDF)
Notice of Project Change (PDF) comments due by July 1, 2008
What’s in a name by Mark Roessler, Valley Advocate, June 26, 2008. “The decision to change the name of Northampton’s Hospital Hill bespeaks the same fear and prejudice against mental illness that drove Victorian activists to build the hospital in the first place.”
What do you think? Hospital Hill: Not mindless sprawl by Rutherford H. Platt, Valley Advocate, June 26, 2008.
Northampton Planning Board June 26, 2008 meeting video. Courtesy Adam Cohen and the North Street Neighborhood Association. “Here is a video of the last 59 minutes from the June 26 meeting of Northampton’s Planning Board. A discussion of lighting standards for gas stations is followed by a longer discussion of evolutions at Hospital Hill (Kollmorgen Electro-Optical proposes to locate an expanded plant there). At the end is a brief discussion of local soccer clubs and compliance with traffic restrictions at the Oxbow.”
Kollmorgen trumps master plan, Mary Serreze speaks with Mark Roessler and Mike Kirby on Valley Free Radio’s Community Radio Hour on the most recent developments for Village Hill, June 25, 2008.
Meet the Hospital Hill CAC by Mark Roessler, Valley Advocate, June 19, 2008. “There are good, competent people on the committee overseeing the development on Hospital Hill. But they don’t make the decisions.”
Northampton: No “village” at Hospital Hill by Mark Roessler, Valley Advocate, June 12, 2008. “Northampton city officials abandon smart growth principles to keep Kollmorgen, the city’s largest business, from looking for greener pastures.”
Village Hill plan altered for Kollmorgen facility by Fred Contrada, Springfield Republican, May 23, 2008
Insiders by Mike Kirby
Insiders part 2 by Mike Kirby
Insiders footnotes by Mike Kirby
Letter of complaint by Mike Kirby
Letter of complaint 2 by Mike Kirby
Tris Metcalfe’s Paradise City Parkway proposal documents
Paradise City Parkway news release
Northampton State Hospital Plan 1993 PDF
