Day-to-day activities include but are not limited to the following. Supporting the EDIC Executive Director with the development and execution of projects. Managing the day-to-day business of responding to emails requests, processing AR/AP, processing payroll. Retaining and organizing records/documentation. Scheduling the EDIC board meetings and providing the Board Members with all necessary documentation to conduct the monthly meeting. Maintaining meeting minutes per Open Meeting Law.
Read MoreThe bikeway will close between Ter Heun and Locust Street. There will be no access to the path at all in this zone for the duration of construction.
The path will close Tuesday, October 15, 2024. Our goal is to reopen the bikeway no later than March 2025, but this timeline is subject to change. Unforeseen circumstances, like weather, can alter construction schedules significantly.
Read MoreThe Falmouth Economic Development & Industrial Corporation (EDIC) has two openings for new members on its Board of Directors. The Falmouth EDIC is a quasi-public 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization whose mission is to attract, advocate and support economic vitality and seek to constantly improve the business climate in Falmouth. The EDIC operates important community assets in Falmouth including the Falmouth Station and Falmouth Landfill Solar Array.
Read MoreThe Falmouth bus station is open to the public again, following a month-long hiatus after the departure of The Station Grill café in late December.
“We’ve tripled the access to the station,” said Wayne H. Lingafelter, executive director of Falmouth’s Economic Development and Industrial Corporation, which manages the station under a 100-year lease from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
The station’s access was previously tied to the operating hours of The Station Grill. Mr. Lingafelter said that because the café’s equipment and food were accessible to anyone entering the station, the building was only opened when café staff were on-site. This limited bus patrons’ and bike path users’ access, especially during the winter months when the café operated on reduced hours, he said.
Read MoreThe Falmouth Economic Development & Industrial Corporation (EDIC) operates the Falmouth Station under a long-term lease agreement with the State of Massachusetts. The Falmouth EDIC completed a full restoration of the building in 2017 and has operated it as the primary transportation hub for the Falmouth community for the past six years. The Falmouth EDIC has three tenants in the building including Peter Pan Bus Lines, Plymouth and Brockton and Mr. John Marcellino, who operates the Station Grill.
Read MoreBy Elizabeth Saito Falmouth Enterprise
The state has given its preliminary blessing for a workforce housing development adjacent to the bus station on Depot Avenue. This conceptual go-ahead allows Falmouth’s economic development council to begin substantive discussions about what should be built on the two-acre wooded site.
Falmouth’s Economic Development and Industrial Corporation, a quasi-public agency, has a 99-year lease on the bus station property and has been thinking about building affordable housing there for the past several years. A major hurdle in moving forward was the uncertainty as to whether the state, which owns the property, would agree.
Read MoreBy Elizabeth Saito Falmouth Enterprise
Workmen began repairs to the exterior of the Falmouth Station on Depot Avenue on Wednesday, November 8. The work is expected to wrap up by December, and the station will remain open throughout.
The joints between the bus station’s bricks are deteriorating, allowing moisture to seep into the bricks. The water then freezes and cracks the brickwork, a process known as spalling. Water is also seeping inside around the windows and causing the drywall to rot.
“It’s the first building that many people coming to Falmouth see,” said Wayne H. Lingafelter, executive director of the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation, the nonprofit responsible for the historic structure’s upkeep.
Read MoreFalmouth Economic Development and Industrial Corporation plan to undertake a market needs study as a precursor to a possible affordable housing development adjacent to Falmouth Station.
At its monthly meeting Tuesday, April 11, board members expressed willingness to commission an assessment of the site, which encompasses about two acres of wooded land bordering the bus depot and the Steamship Authority ferry parking lot. Buses that turn off Palmer Avenue to arrive at the station trace an outline around the northern edge of the prospective project site.
Economic corporation Executive Director Wayne H. Lingafelter described the study as a logical first step.
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