The Holyoke Historical Commission on Jan. 13 approved letters of support for two related Far Alpaca Mill projects on Appleton Street after hearing from Alyssa Augenstein of the Public Archaeology Laboratory, the project’s historic consultant.

“We will be wrapping up construction at the first project, which is buildings 6, 5, and part of 4 this summer,” Augenstein told the commission, and the team expects to wait a gap year before starting the second phase (building 3 and the southeast end of building 4). She asked that the commission prepare separate letters for each phase with building-specific names.

Commissioners made motions to write letters of support for each phase and approved both motions by roll call. The roll calls recorded affirmative votes by Zayisha Robert, Joseph Mazzola and Olivia (surname as recorded in the roll call). The commission indicated it had copies of prior letters and that staff could reuse or adapt those documents for the current requests.

The commission did not attach conditions to the letters; staff are to prepare and send separate letters for each requested building phase.