Tom Laffin

Infrastructure / Transportation

There are a few uses that I could see and support the armory being used for. For certain, updates will need to be made and that will be much easier to not just assess but to perform once the police department has moved out. Good ideas I have heard so far are use for the Board of Education office, Adult Education, and/or the Parks and Rec Department as a downtown program hub. Learn more

The Historic Train Station is the only property owned by the town that I would consider and am considering for commercial lease. I think the building itself is too important to our community to give up, but it’s location and potential is too great to just let it sit there looking like a cool old building in the center of town. I have been working for years as one of the council liaisons to the Plan OF Conservation Development Committee (POCD) with meetings and connecting dots between departments and committees to transform this location and we are almost there. Of course, it goes without saying that the Adult Education program currently using some of the space must have a new home first, and we, we good ''landlords'' will repair and restore our share of the building per any lease agreement. Learn more