Stalled negotiations between the town and a private developer have cost Middleboro a $1.9 million state grant that would have gone toward reducing gridlock at the Route 44 rotary.
The town had planned to use a $1.9 million grant from the governor’s office and $1 million from Conroy Development Corp. of Stoughton to connect two industrial parks — Middleboro Park @ 495 and Campanelli Business Park. The roadwork would have lightened the traffic load at the rotary.
The grant required a partnership between the town and a private developer — in this case, Conroy. On Tuesday, Middleboro’s Town Planning Director, Ruth M. Geoffroy, told members of the town’s Planning Board that the town could not come to terms with Conroy President Terrence W. Conroy Sr., and that a Jan. 31 deadline for such an agreement, set forth in the terms of the grant, had passed. Read the rest of the story at TauntonGazette.com.
More on this topic can be found in the February 17, 2011 edition of the Middleboro Gazette:
That really doesn’t classify as failed negotiations. It should be labeled GREED on the part of the DEVELOPER caused the deal to fall through.