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Major Projects Paid For With Tornado Recovery Funds Nearing Completion

exterior of a former U.S. Army reserve center that is to become a Springfield Police Dept Annex.
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A $30 million settlement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following the June 1, 2011 tornado in Springfield, Massachusetts is paying for three construction projects.

A former National Guard armory building is being converted for use by the police department. A brand new senior center is being built. And, a brand new neighborhood center is being constructed to replace one destroyed by the storm six years ago. 

Each of the buildings, when finished, will benefit people throughout the city. 

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill visited one of the construction sites and spoke with Peter Garvey, the city’s Director of Capital Asset and Construction.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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