Last September, the Holyoke City Council unanimously voted to hand ownership of the Victory Theater over to the not-for-profit Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA), a group that hopes to reopen the building, which has stood derelict since 1979.
AMHERST – University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson made another pitch for state funding Monday as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing at UMass in preparation of the Fiscal 2011 budget.
HOLYOKE – A preferred site has been selected for an $80 million high-performance computing center being planned in Holyoke by a partnership of state, public and private colleges and private firms, but officials are not ready to identify its location.
HOLYOKE – Officials on Thursday were unwilling to identify the exact location, but they said a preferred site has been chosen for an $80 million high performance computing center being planned here by a partnership of state, public and private colleges and private firms.
Cisco Systems, Inc. and the City of Holyoke signed a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this month to establish Holyoke as a pilot for Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities vision. The project aims to establish a vibrant 21st Century neighborhood in downtown Holyoke that creates economic opportunity, improves education and services, and stabilizes the community.
The second meeting of the Holyoke Innovation District Design and Development Task Force will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2010 in the Visitors Center Exhibit Hall at Holyoke Heritage State Park, 221 Appleton Street, Holyoke. All are welcome. Minutes from the first meeting of the Task Force and an agenda for Meeting #2 can be viewed below.
Minutes – Innovation District Task Force – 01-14-10
Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a “Smart+Connected Community” over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in the last year as it chases IBM, which started the vogue for wired cities just as the world’s governments were earmarking billions of dollars in stimulus funds for infrastructure. (See “Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cites From Scratch” from the February issue.) The strategy has paid off handsomely for both companies thus far–public sector sales are IBM’s strongest, while Cisco considers SC+C one of its most promising new lines of business.
HOLYOKE – The partners who are planning to build a high performance computing center downtown are enthusiastic about working with the city on the $80 million project, a state official told city councilors Thursday.
HOLYOKE – The partnership of groups that plans to build a high performance computing center in the canal area is uncommonly enthusiastic about working with the city on the $80 million project, a state official told city councilors on Thursday.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it is collaborating with the city of Holyoke, Mass., to establish a cooperative relationship that advances the city’s community vision for revitalization and stability. Faced with familiar urban planning challenges such as unemployment, population loss in the town center to rapid growth in Holyoke suburban neighborhoods, and delivery of services to a moving population, the city of Holyoke is taking an innovative approach in investigating the positive effect that an Internet-based, connected community model can play in helping to revitalize the local economy.
