Dirt pile on South East Street
That rather large dirt pile growing off South East Street on the grounds of Colonial Village Apartments in East Amherst is from the Presidential Apartments expansion project in North Amherst. Both complexes have the same owner (Allen Cohn).
Presidential Apartments: Nine new buildings opening September 1st
The Zoning Board and Conservation Commission both gave permission for temporary storage of 4,000 cubic yards of material and the Con Com will need to approve any future use of the dirt at the Colonial Village site.
Have dirt, will pile
10/18/15 Job complete
Does the dirt have to stay in Amherst?
ReplyDeleteThis news? Must be a slow day.
ReplyDeleteActually I knew you were going to say that.
ReplyDeleteBut it has stimulated quite the discussion over on my Facebook page.
I can't wait to see the follow up post about this - when the grass starts to grow.
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it ...
ReplyDeleteMuckraking journalism at its best. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhy dump it there - will this be the site of a future "1 S. East Street" casting an evil shadow on Colonial Village and Amherst College? [Special font not found ;-]
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, see story just now published (1st of course).
ReplyDeleteWell, is an expansion of C.V. planned there too?
ReplyDeleteNo. Although not a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteInteresting question is what is it?
ReplyDeleteThose Presidential units are being built on filled-in swampland, at least towards the NW end of the parcel. I remember seeing large chunks of demo debris, chunks of brick buildings, coming up out of the ground back when that was forested land.
filled in perhaps, but for a LONG time. I lived in Presidential as a kid from first grade in 71 through 9th grade in 1980. Back behind Mckinley building there was a ditch and then all that land was filled in from the day I moved in.
ReplyDeleteI also remember that there were plans to build more (and expand the playground to include a pool) that never quite came to fruition.