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Mayor Alex Morse hosted the Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the Holyoke Passenger Rail Platform at Depot Square on Thursday, August 27 at the intersection of Dwight and Main streets. The inauguration of the platform marked return of the first passenger rail train to Holyoke in approximately 50 years, and three years to the day when Mayor Morse announced the final location of the new station.

“The return of passenger rail to Holyoke represents a critical component of our revitalization strategy ...

The City of Holyoke will unveil a new public art project, “Arrivals,” under Mosher Street Rail Bridge with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday August 19th, 2015 at 4:30 PM. There will also be tours of the project scheduled as part of the Celebrate Holyoke Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 21st, 22nd & 23rd.

“Arrivals,” the selected proposal for the Mosher Street Underpass Art Project, will transform a key gateway between the flats neighborhood and downtown Holyoke into a safe, inviting and ...

The City of Holyoke has received $7,500 in grant funding for the installation of custom-made street furniture designed and built by Holyoke-based artists and makers as both permanent infrastructure and public pieces of art. The funding has been provided by the “TDI Places” Small Grants Program from MassDevelopment, a part of the Transformative Development Initiative (TDI).  Funding will be used to produce custom street furniture that will remain available and periodically re-positioned throughout portions of Holyoke’s Innovation District. The measure ...

The City of Holyoke will begin clean-up activities at 689 Main Street, the former site of “Automania”, which will include demolition of the building and removal of hazardous materials in order to prepare the site for sale and redevelopment.  The site is expected to be ready for sale by the fall of 2015.

“As a City, one of the biggest challenges we face is securing the often scarce resources needed to make sites like this ready ...

The Holyoke Redevelopment Authority (HRA) recently completed its guidelines and is now ready to review and approve restaurant concepts in order for businesses to compete for the thirteen additional liquor licenses located specifically within the four neighborhoods that comprise the Center City of Holyoke’s Urban Renewal Plan.

“This approval by the HRA board signifies the launch of the Center City Liquor License program, giving us another valuable tool to promote new business opportunities that will complement our downtown area, and allows ...