Amesbury, Massachusetts

6 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 AMESBURY , MASSACHUSETTS into office, I saw the city lose development projects or companies come and go because they did not understand what the community wanted,” Gove recalls. “Without understanding where we were headed and what our future looked like, we were losing opportunities. It was really important to me that we had a community conversation about that, and we got the public involved so that they were on board with us.” The I AMesbury initiative is currently under way with multiple planning sessions to discuss what the city should be like in 2030. A task force has been set up to help plan for the future and Mayor, Kassandra Gove Angela Cleveland, Director of Community and Economic Development Photo Courtesy of Laura Kozlowski