Don’t Let NIMBYs Kill Green Power
NIMBY local pols and naysayers wrecked the housing market in Massachusetts. Now, they’re threatening to do the same thing with the state’s new clean energy industry unless Beacon Hill can stop them.
NIMBY local pols and naysayers wrecked the housing market in Massachusetts. Now, they’re threatening to do the same thing with the state’s new clean energy industry unless Beacon Hill can stop them.
Now here’s a real crisis we can all get up in arms about: The U.S. has lost 58 “million-dollar” cities over the past eight months, per Zillow, including our own Sudbury. But is the latest report all it’s cracked up to be?
The state’s U.S. Census liaison is reporting “encouraging numbers” about population growth ahead of next year’s Census, with the largest population increases since the 2010 Census in the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Everett and Lowell.
Only two years ago, it seemed unthinkable that up to 25 percent of the nation’s shopping malls might close by 2022. Now, as large retailers close outlets en masse, landlords are looking for new uses for old spaces.
Benoit Mizner Simon & Co. is expanding into Sudbury.