Welcome to the new NBEDC Newsletter!  This issue has 4 news stories:

  Business Park Featured in Bankers & Tradesman!
Business Park Grows Into 21st Century
Bankers & Tradesman, week of July 17, 2006

New Bedford Property Has Seen Considerable Changes Since Industrial Foundation’s Campaign Began in 1998.

Despite approaching its 50th anniversary, the New Bedford Business Park displays more elements of the new millennium these days than of the old. “We don’t have any belching smokestacks,” Executive Director Thomas G. Davis noted last week of the 1300-acre complex. “It has a very modern look and feel.”...[read more]

  New York Times Highlights New Bedford as Tourist Destination!
36 Hours in New Bedford, Mass.
New York Times, May 26, 2006. Written By Paul Schneider
 

A LOT of time and tide has come and gone since the days when New Bedford was, as Melville wrote in "Moby-Dick," “the dearest place to live in, in all New England”… New Bedford has plenty of history, architecture and small museums to fill a weekend, particularly when you throw in its proximity to some of the prettiest little towns on the coast and a couple of Massachusetts's best and least famous beaches...[read more]

  AquaPoint, using tomorrow’s technology today.
AquaPoint provides cost-effective wastewater solutions
Business Bulletin; Vol 6, Issue 7, July 2006.
 

Tucked amid much bigger buildings and businesses that dot the New Bedford Business Park, Aquapoint could very well be a giant in the future of wastewater treatment for residential, commercial, institutional and municipal markets.

With the amount of development that much of New England has been going through the last few years, especially in places not located near city or town sewer pipe or treatment facilities, there has never been a greater need for a decentralized wastewater treatment than now. That’s where Aquapoint can help with the technologies it has developed that enable adaptive solutions to site specific wastewater issues...[read more]

  International Commercial filmed in New Bedford!
Subaru Shoots Commercial in New Bedford!
 

Film scouts for Subaru International recently contacted the City of New Bedford to request use of our picturesque cobblestone stones in the National Park District. Film location professionals in Boston working on behalf of Subaru's production agency, Marcom Visual Creation of NYC, gave New Bedford very high marks as a film-friendly community which has hosted many film projects, including WGBH (American Experience Series), TV Japan, Spanish Public Television, and the $8 million independent film, Passionada, starring Jason Isaacs...[read more]