Business View Civil and Municipal | February 2021

50 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL FEBRUARY 2021 of businesses who are born here – they may graduate and go to nearby communities, but a lot of them start here.” One of the multi-use downtown facilities includes a shared-use commercial kitchen – one of the first in the area to accommodate caterers, food trucks, and people who had unique business models but lacked the space. Some of the other businesses in these mill buildings include INroof. solar – which creates solar panels, including ones that will soon be added to the building they occupy; Old Newbury Crafters – a silversmith that hammers flatware on site; Carriage Hill Craft Metals – a metalwork company that does both artistic and commercial-industrial work; as well as a drum school, a glass blower, many artists, architects and engineers. buildings, but gave them a modern twist. “Over the last 15 years there has been a real focus on reuse and infill in that area where we have our old mill buildings,” says Gove. “They are big, beautiful, brick buildings that are now full of entrepreneurs and residents and folks who are contributing to our downtown area. We have had four really instrumental developments where the large brick buildings have been turned over to small spaces for entrepreneurs. Some of them are focused on artists, some of them are focused on offices and some are more for makers. They may graduate from a smaller space to a little bit bigger and even bigger after that, where they offer loading docks and other amenities. They each have their own personality and we absolutely do encourage that. We have a lot