New Garden Park, Inc.
New Garden Park, Inc. is a wholly owned 501(c)(3) non-profit organization subsidiary of the WBDC, creating a unique ability to receive grants for development projects.
New Garden Park’s mission is to revitalize struggling areas of Worcester, MA through collaborative redevelopment projects with a focus on leveraging and promoting the local creative and innovative economy.
Officers:
Chair - Robert J. Hennigan, Law Offices of Robert J. Hennigan
Vice Chair - Katherine Bagdis, Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting LLP
President - Craig L. Blais, WBDC
Treasurer - Maria Heskes-Allard, Fidelity Cooperative Bank
Clerk - Karen Duffy, Duffy Advisors
Board of Directors:
Emmanuel Larbi, Accra Girls, Inc. & Akra LLC
Richard Mazzocchi, Tremont Development Partners LLC
Preservation
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New Garden Park is involved in supporting the preservation of historic elements within Norton Hall on the Saint-Gobain campus.
Brownfields
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Due to the historic uses of an older industrial complex, the WBDC conducted significant assessments of the properties to determine the level of contamination and develop a plan to address the remediation of the site. The WBDC commenced remediation efforts which included the abatement of Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs), lead paint, Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs) and other hazardous materials. Upon completion, the WBDC worked with Massachusetts DEP to close out and bring compliance to the outstanding environmental records that were previously open for the site.
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On the 51 acres of former Saint-Gobain land, New Garden Park is working on abatement, remediation and demolition of former manufacturing buildings to make way for pad ready sites that will be marketed for advanced manufacturing.
Donate to Norton Hall
Norton Hall Commemorative Book
General Donation
In accordance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Brownfields Program, New Garden Park, Inc. (NGP), is providing notice of a planned public meeting for the review and discussion of the draft USEPA Cleanup Grant and the draft Analysis of Brownfields Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) document pertinent to the environmental cleanup work for 1 New Bond Street,Worcester, MA. The purpose of the ABCA is to discuss cleanup options at the site. NGP intends to clean up the site and create a pad-ready development as part of a larger redevelopment project. NGP is seeking USEPA funds to remediate 1 New Bond Street, removing environmental contamination from the area and facilitating the demolition of vacant and obsolete buildings for the purposes of creating pad-ready development sites for industrial/manufacturing uses.