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An Act Relative to Neighborhood Stabilization and Economic Development

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Jan 31, 2019 Policy Center

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Gateway City legislators gathered yesterday to unveil An Act Relative to Neighborhood Stabilization and Economic Development. Filed by Representative Antonio Cabral (House Docket 3507) and Senator Brendan Crighton (Senate Docket 1578), the bill furthered the ideas for strengthening blighted and distressed neighborhoods that MassINC and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations assembled last fall

Unveiling Gateway City Neighborhood Stabilization Bill

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Policy Center
Jan 28, 2019 Policy Center

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Last week the Gateway Cities Legislative Caucus filed an omnibus bill to provide communities with more powerful tools to address blighted and abandoned property and stabilize distressed neighborhoods across the Commonwealth. This legislation includes all of the major tools described in a neighborhood stabilization policy blueprint that we developed collaboratively with Gateway City housing leaders over the

WOOHOO, WOOSOX?

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Aug 23, 2018 Policy Center

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After three years of courtship, team owners and city officials announced last Friday that the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox (or, as they are more colloquially called, the “PawSox”) will soon move to Worcester and into a still-to-be-built $90 million stadium, Polar Park. Financed primarily through municipal bond offerings that cover the stadium’s construction, Polar Park

Where there’s a will, is there a way?

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Aug 8, 2018 Policy Center

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There exists a very strong will to rebuild our Gateway Cities. This is evident in all of the creative approaches these communities are taking to sow growth and opportunity. But every will needs a way. Because we make it nearly impossible for local governments to generate revenue to invest in themselves (and the federal government

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Feb 27, 2019

State House Forum on Stimulating Transformative Investment in Gateway Cities

Please join MassINC, the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, and LOCUS for a State House forum on stimulating transformative investment in Gateway Cities with the state’s Housing Development Incentive Program (HDIP) and new federal Opportunity Zone Funds.

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Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development and former chair of the Gateway Cities Innovation Institute
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Juliette Kayyem Faculty Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Founder Kayyem Solutions LLC
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