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Articles about Hatters Point in:
The Amesbury News, "Hatters Point Steams
Ahead"
The Merrimack River Current, "Hatters Point
Steams Ahead"
The Newburyport Daily News, "Hatters
Point Marks First Sales"
Condo Media Magazine, "Converted Hat Factory
Showing That One Size Doesn't Fit All"
The Newburyport Daily News, "Hats Off
to This Collection"
The Boston Globe, "Hat Factory to House
Aging Baby Boomers"
The Newburyport Daily News, "Former Landmark
Fetches $40 Per Ton"
The Newburyport Daily News, "Tower Topples"
The Eagle Tribune, "Amesbury Demolition"
The Newburyport Daily News, "Hat Factory
Tower to Fall on Thursday"
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"Hatters Point steams ahead
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Merrill
Katz
November 15, 2002
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Historic Amesbury mill building reborn with view toward future
as upscale housing
Last
month, residents began moving into their brand new Amesbury condominiums
at Hatters Point, at the bend of the Merrimack River, across the
water from Maudslay State Park. At the historic but once abandoned
and dilapidated Merrimac Hat Factory, the brick structure is morphing
into luxury townhouses and flats "for active youngsters over
55," as the advertisements proclaim.
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"Hatters Point steams
ahead "
Merrill
Katz
November 15, 2002
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Historic Amesbury mill building reborn with view toward future
as upscale housing
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few unit owners started setting up their residences in the building
during the first week of October and immediately were treated
to an awesome view of the river and the landscape on the opposite
bank. By the end of the year, 16 units of the projected 80-unit
development should be occupied. Prices range from $262,000 to
$460,000.
The
hat factory thrived from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century,
roughly from the Ulysses S. Grant administration to the time of
Eisenhower. Grant had made wearing wool hats a fad, and it was
probably not coincidental that the Merrimack Hat factory was built
during Grant's final year in office.
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Business & Finance
The
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"Hatters Point Marks
First Sales"
Dan
Hackett
Tuesday , November 5, 2002
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Developer
Bill Sullivan is juggling two jobs right now. He wants to keep the
first occupants of his renovated Amesbury hat factory condominiums
happy. They waited through months of delays to move into their new
homes. Sullivan also wants to move full-steam ahead with the remainder
of the project's first phase.
"The
first people in are so important to a project," Sullivan said
during a recent interview at the Merrimac Street site. Reviews from
the earliest residents can enthuse or deter new buyers of the luxury
condominiums that Sullivan's firm, Millwright Corp., is making from
the former Merrimac Hat factory.
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"Converted Hat Factory Showing that One
Size Doesn't Fit All"
Cover
Story
Jim Douglas
June, 2002
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A converted
hat factory in Amesbury, Massachusetts is giving 55+ baby boomers
new choices in recreation and living that include an adjacent 137-slip
marina and the chance to design the layout of their condominiums.
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Real Estate Marketplace
The
Daily News & Essex County Newspapers
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"Heads up, seniors:
Hat factory site offers waterfront Housing"
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Elizabeth Ross White
Friday, November 2, 2001
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Shore seniors are looking forward to a new housing complex to be built
at an old hat factory.
Called
Hatters Point, it is at the site of the old Merrimac Hat factory
along the river in Amesbury. Built for the age-55 and over crowd,
the $40 million facility will offer views of the Merrimack River
and will include a 137-slip marina and boardwalk.
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Typical
buyers of homes at Hatters Point are people who no longer have a
need for a large home. Considered "active youngsters,"
says Bill Sullivan of Amesburyport Corporation, many of them are
employed and lead active lives.
Once
the buildings are renovated in about two years, Hatters Point will
have a total of 80 condos. Sixteen of 20 units now available have
already been sold. Condo buyers, who can purchase either townhouses
or flats, can choose the size and design of their homes. Prices
start at $294,000.
Besides
its modern amenities, condo buyers may enjoy living at the site
of the company that was a key economic force in the region.
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The
Daily News, "Portwatch" Section,
Cody Therrien, Photography by Jim Vaiknoras & Cody Therrien
Friday, December 8, 2000
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"Amesbury
Woman has more than 40 creations from the former Merrimac Hat Company"
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"Hat factory to house
aging baby boomers"
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The
Boston Globe, Sunday Edition
North Weekly Section, Cover,
Andrew Blake
Sunday, September 3, 2000
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The
very people who led to the downfall of the historic hat factory
here, the hatless baby boomers born after World War II, now are
seen as potential—though still hattless—saviors.
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"Former landmark fetches $40 per ton"
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The
Daily News,
Dan Hackett
Tuesday, August 29, 2000
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What
happens to rusting landmarks demolished to make way for progress?
They get sold for scrap metal at $40 a ton.
That's
the fate of the 40-ton water tower that used to mark to Merrimac
Hat factory on the banks of the Merrimac River. Torn down Thursday
evening, the 60-something-year-old tower has been cut into pieces,
loaded onto a truck, and sold to a scrap metal dealer in Lawrence.
The last pieces left Amesbury this morning.
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"Tower Topples"
The
Daily News, Cover Story,
Dan Hackett, Photography by Bryan Eaton
Friday, August 25, 2000
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Demolition
signals start, at last, of Hat Factory Renovation
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"Amesbury Demolition"
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The
Eagle Tribune, cover pictorial
Mark Lorenz
Friday, August 25, 2000 |
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Crews
took down the historic water tower in Amesbury yesterday to make
room for 80 condominiums. The water tower at 60 Merrimack St. has
been a town landmark for decades. The new condominiums will be located
next to the Merrimack River in the former Hat Factory nest to the
tower.
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"Hat Factory tower to
Fall on Thursday"
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The
Daily News,
Dan Hackett
Monday, August 21, 2000
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The
crashing sound you might hear Thursday night will be the demise of
a landmark steel water tower that a developer is tearing down to make
way for condominiums in the historic Hat Factory on the banks of the
Merrimack River.
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"The
metal gets sold on the spot market. It gets melted down, shipped
to Japan and it comes back in Hondas and Toyotas." - Jack
Kelly, Demolition Contractor
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