Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [C-L] Announcement - Potential cohousing/eco-village in Shelburne Falls, MA

[Stuart Joseph (stuart]

Good luck with your project.
It is ambitious, but a great idea for recycling the site and the buildings.
One thing to check on, is whether or not it is a toxic dump since it is 
an old factory.

Ruthpoet [at] aol.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> For those who don't know Shelburne Falls - it's a beautiful little town up  
> in the hills of Western Massachusetts. About 2 hours from Boston, about 45  
> minutes North of Northampton, and about 15 minutes from Greenfield, the largest  
> big(ish) town.  It's a magnet kind of place, scenic and artsy, filled with  
> galleries, cafes and good restaurants, with a "bridge of flowers" you can  walk 
> across, and a beautiful river with "glacial potholes" (amazing holes and  
> other formations carved in the river rock by glaciers).
>  
> Anyway, there is an amazing site for sale there -- it's 18 acres, with 1550  
> feet river frontage, just two blocks from town. There are a bunch of old mill  
> buildings on the site - it used to be the Lamson-Goodnow cutlery factory. The 
>  price is steep, $1.7 million, but the possibilities are vast. My partner and 
> I  are exploring the possibility of trying to do a large-ish 
> eco-village/cohousing  complex, using the old mill buildings for the most part -- maybe 50 
> units, plus  a big common house? We are flexible, low key people, so our vision 
> is flexible  and low key as well -- lots of options for sharing meals, tools, 
> activities,  etc., but little or nothing mandatory. We would want to do the 
> construction in  VERY green fashion, and hope to have a wide range of unit sizes, 
> from studios to  3 or 4 bedrooms.
>  
> I'm putting out the word locally as well as here, to see if people emerge  
> who have the energy, and also some $, to help carry this forward. My idea is  
> that we would work with Cohousing Resources, LLC to develop and build. But one  
> person already interested is a historic preservation architect, which could be 
>  great!
>  
> For more info, please contact me off-list at this email or at 413-367-0034.  
> Thanks!
> Ruth
>
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Caer Coburn, a traditional village based upon cohousing  and intentional 
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