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University Backs Out Of Deal For Free Campus

An Arizona college has backed out of a deal   for a free 217 acre campus in western Massachusetts.  WAMC”s Paul Tuthill reports

   Just five weeks after Grand Canyon University was named recipient of the Northfield Mount Herman School campus a  spokesman confirmed the deal is off.  The for-profit Christian college had planned to spend $150 million to eventually host  5,000 students. But the spokesman said further review uncovered tens of millions of dollars in extra costs and he said there was significant  local resistance .  Steve Green, whose family owns the campus said they were disheartened by the decision, but would begin a new search to give away the property.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.