Although Waste Management's lease ended on Oct. 1, 2012, it is now supposed to vacate the facility on June 30.
I recently got an email from a reader asking about the Waste Management transfer station in Brickbottom, off McGrath Highway. In the fall of 2011, the city sent a letter to Waste Management saying it planned to terminate the transfer station's lease on Oct. 1, 2012. Based on the lease agreement between Somerville and the trash company, the city had to give Waste Management one-year notice that it was terminating the lease. The reader pointed out the transfer station still isn't closed, and, well, Oct. 1 was four months ago. I asked Jackie Rossetti, a city spokesperson, about what's going on. She said although Waste Management's lease ended on Oct. 1, the company is in a "transition period," and it has until the end of the city's current …
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The city sent a letter to Waste Management notifying the company its lease at the Brickbottom transfer station will be terminated next October.
Somerville will terminate Waste Management's lease at a transfer station in the Brickbottom area starting on Oct. 1, 2012, according to a press announcement. The transfer station, at 10 Poplar St., is located off the McGrath Highway, and the move to terminate the company's lease is part of an overall effort to redevelop the area. "The reality is no one is going to want to locate a new corporate headquarters or new housing or a new restaurant right next to a trash handling facility," said Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone in a statement. Curtatone sent a letter to Waste Management, which operates the transfer station, alerting the company that the city will terminate its lease next year, the announcement says. The company operates the …
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1:29 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Cynthia- I can tell you're not from Somerville or you wouldn't be bashing the accent like that ! more ›