Leominster receives $10K to study business property
The city of Leominster has received $9,800 to conduct an environmental assessment of a vacant commercial building in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, officials announced Tuesday.
The city-owned property at 139 Seventh St. was taken in a tax foreclosure in 2014. It has been a source of environmental and public safety hazards, including a reported oil leak and numerous fires, according to MassDevelopment, the state’s finance and development agency, which awarded the money.
Built in 1910, the property was most recently used as a plastics manufacturing site and is located in a dense residential neighborhood. The grant will help identify any environmental-related remediation work the site would need.
“Vacant, run-down buildings tend to cause increased crime and unsafe conditions that can quickly spread to nearby properties if let go on too long,” Mayor Dean Mazzarella said in a statement distributed by MassDevelopment. “We are pleased to receive these funds from MassDevelopment to begin the environmental assessment of the property with the eventual goal of demolition and cleanup of the site.”
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