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Council approves planning budget as Haverhill pushes for Ward Hill densification and business recruitment
Summary
Economic development and planning Director Bill briefed the council on efforts to retain and recruit manufacturing and high-tech employers, pursue densification in Ward Hill and respond to cuts to community development block grants; council approved the departments level-funded budget.
Bill, director of economic development and planning, told the Haverhill City Council his office is pursuing business-retention and recruitment work while encouraging development to "go up and not out" in Ward Hill.
"Our mission in both economic development and planning is to implement the city's master plan and to take that to the next level," Bill said, describing work with existing companies and interest from a company that might "probably triple the space" at an existing site by building up rather than out.
Bill said there are…
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