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Smith College Expansion
In the News
- Video of construction part 1, September 8, 2007 (Windows Media Player required)
- Smith College expansion at Northampton Redoubt
- Future of the West Street Neighborhood PDF
- West Street Planning and Development
- Controversy over the Smith Expansion by Kenneth Mitchell (Masslive 1/07)
- SAID (Local Buzz 1/07)
- The once and future streets~As a college gets bigger, a city asks: What makes a neighborhood great? (Local Buzz 12/06)
- Smith College seeks zone change for expansion (masslive.com, 09/06)
- ‘Relaxed’ zoning upsets neighbors (masslive.com, 03/06)
- Construction of new Smith College building encounters conflict (The Daily Collegian, 03/06)
- Neighbors feel college’s growing pains (The Boston Globe, 06/05)
- Smith proposing expansion plans (masslive.com, 06/05)
- Engineering Building Reveals Class Tensions On Campus (The Smith College Sophian, 03/05)
- Smith works with residents on engineering building realities (The Smith College Sophian, 10/04)
- Smith grapples with Northampton housing concerns (The Smith College Sophian, 11/03)
Opinion and Commentary
- Recent Public Hearing on Education Overlay Ordinance Broke Planning Board Rules (Mike Kirby, 07/06) (.pdf, 1.2 MB)
- An Open Letter to Ruth Constantine, Chair of the Campus Planning Committee (Student Alumnae Coalition for Responsible Expansion and Development (SACRED), 05/06)
- A Neighborhood and a College: Guess Who Will Be the Victor? (Downstreet.net, 06/05)
- Smith College’s Building Boom All but Walls out the Community (Downstreet.net, 06/03)
- Facts about the Educational Use Overlay Zone (Smith College)
Related Weblinks
- West Street Planning Northampton Office of Planning and Development
- Building for the Sciences & Engineering Smith College
- Development Agreement (PDF, 20 kb) between the City of Northampton and the Trustees of Smith College (08/05)