Holyoke, Massachusetts

10 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 HOLYOKE , MASSACHUSETTS businesses, the companies that build the lights, the company that does the technology. We are trying to get those companies here, because their products relate not just to cannabis, but beyond.” Along with that, clean energy production will be another priority. Vega states, “We see clean energy production as not just critical to Holyoke’s future and sustainability, but also supporting businesses, because energy prices are going up.” Describing a desire to create symbiotic relationships between companies, using the example of an energy company generating excess heat, and the possibility of bringing in a plastics company who could use that heat in their manufacturing process, Vega says that this is one direction he would love to see the city move in. “You could have a whole hub right there, having no impact on the on the environment, but creating all the things that we actually need, energy and plastic. Those are the kinds of sectors we really want to start looking at.”