PREFERRED VENDOR/PARTNER n Holyoke Community College www.hcc.edu Holyoke Community College sits on 135 beautiful acres, and serves 7,000 credit and non-credit students annually. Approximately 800 students receive degrees each year. HCC is a place of transformative learning. We provide support services that break barriers so students can succeed in college. At HCC, our students learn, engage, and connect. They benefit from networks leading to new careers in the workforce and pathways leading to prestigious four-year colleges and universities. n Winn Development www.winncompanies.com WinnCompanies is an award-winning owner, developer, and manager of high-impact, quality apartment homes, supported by 4,300 team members in 28 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The company operates the nation’s largest portfolio of affordable housing, and it is a leading manager of mixed-income, workforce, and privatized military housing. n Hazen Paper www.hazen.com Hazen Paper, founded in 1925, in the last 25 years has evolved from a paper company to a recognized world leader in holographic origination and optical technology. Hazen holographic products are used to enhance and amplify brand image and to authenticate products like the Basketball Hall of Fame Yearbook Mayor Garcia balances project development with quality-of-life improvements residents can see immediately.“I am going to be focused on the things that people can see and feel,” he says, pointing to road conditions as a statewide concern requiring more aggressive local funding supplements beyond Chapter 90 allocations. “It’s going to require me to work together with the council on a much grander scale to be able to punch harder in how we invest these resources.” Public safety initiatives include work by a new police chief who previously oversaw audit implementation in Springfield.“He went in there and really changed the culture, which then allowed him to maximize the capacity within that department to do more than what we were doing before,” Mayor Garcia explains. The approach addresses serious crimes and qualityof-life issues. “We’re trying to tackle these higher crime issues and then also take care of the little things that are not little things. They’re big things to people.” The strategy integrates multiple city departments. “If I can get all these pieces to work together; the projects, the infrastructure, the departments with the residents and expectations, that’s really where we could start feeling a better quality of life for everybody,” Mayor Garcia concludes. With major housing projects breaking ground, Sublime Systems moving toward 2026 commissioning, and infrastructure improvements reshaping downtown, Holyoke’s transformation from its industrial past toward a clean energy future continues gaining momentum. 122 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 11
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