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Springfield Puts Two Tornado Damaged Buildings Up For Sale

WAMC

Two city owned buildings heavily damaged by the June 1, 2011 tornado are being put up for sale in Springfield.  WAMC”s Paul Tuthill reports

Springfield city officials plan to sell a former elementary school and a former state armory building, both located  on the same street in  the south end of downtown . Both buildings are located in the area where MGM Resorts International has proposed an $800 million resort casino.   The former armory building was home to the city’s south end community center.   The center is relocating.  The school building had been unused for several years before it was damaged by the tornado.   Bids for the two properties are due by December 7.

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.