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Article: Pittsfield gets stimulus funds to expand industrial park
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- September 19, 2009
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PITTSFIELD - The announcement Friday that the town of Pittsfield
will receive $880,000 in federal stimulus funding for the expansion
of its industrial park will advance a project that's been on the
town's wish list since the 1980s.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke's announcement sent a jolt
through the town, which in recent years has seen several interested
businesses look at Pittsfield and then move on because they found no
suitable place to build, according to Town Manager Kathryn Ruth.
This project will create six new building sites. The existing
industrial park is full except for one site that would be hard to
develop because of its geography, said Ruth.
"It has been sort of a dream of ...