Thursday, March 14, 2013

A Little On The Top


Former Fiber Arts Building downtown Amherst this morning 

Work continues on the building Amherst College purchased four years ago for $2.3 Million, even though it was only assessed at $1 million.

Activist Vince O'Connor tried to get Amherst Town Meeting to take the property from Amherst College via eminent domain but like a lot of Vince's initiatives these days, the best laid plan did not go very far.

Amherst College planes to turn it into office space.

2 comments:

Walter Graff said...

Great the school bought that spot. They'll improve yet another strip of Amherst that looks old and weathered. The building was a shambles.

Anonymous said...

It would be even better if they paid taxes on it.