Amherst

If you want to peruse the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts one more time before its expansion project begins, you’re running low on time.

A proposal to bring 140 units to a corner of Amherst, Massachusetts, is coming along, but town officials want to see more matters addressed before approving a site plan, and residents nearby have their own concerns.

It took years of planning, a referendum and several city council votes that almost iced it, but the Jones Library renovation project is moving forward in Amherst, Massachusetts. WAMC spoke with the library’s director about what comes next for the building and its books.

Town councilors in Amherst, Massachusetts, voted to approve zoning language that would allow for a new “overlay district” and, potentially, more large-scale, mixed-use developments near UMass Amherst.

One of the biggest universities in Massachusetts is expanding its footprint - and hoping to strengthen bonds with the town it resides in in the process.

Each March for the past decade, students, professors and the public have been convening at Amherst College for LitFest - several days of readings, screenings and talks, featuring the work of students, faculty and guests.

Over a year into development, a proposal to put a five-story mixed-use structure at a corner near the biggest university in western Massachusetts is closer than ever to getting some major approvals.

Local leaders in Amherst, Massachusetts, gave an annual address on the state of the town last week, touting headway made on bylaws, projects and more – all while touching on work that still needs to be done.

A re-tooled plan to expand the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts has been going before various committees, about a month before library officials put the project out to bid again. Some hope dropping certain aspects of the project will be enough to get shovels in the ground.

Officials in Amherst, Massachusetts have been revisiting plans to renovate the town's library. The multi-million-dollar project was knocked off-course recently, when the only general contractor bid it received was almost 20 percent higher than expected.