Tyngsborough Board Eyes Former Hospital Office Building as Public Safety Site

Select Board · Meeting of July 13, 2026

Tyngsborough Select Board explores converted office building as public safety alternative and approves Purple Heart Community designation. Town Manager Colin Loiselle disclosed at the July 13 meeting that the town is in preliminary talks with the owner of 100 Potash Hill Road, a 36,000-square-foot former Lowell General Hospital administrative building, as a potential combined police and fire facility cheaper than new construction; an architectural feasibility review is expected before the August 10 joint meeting with the Fire Station Building Committee. The board also heard that residential sewer rates will rise from $520 annually to $873 by fiscal year 2029, driven by a 55 percent jump in inter-municipal treatment costs and 14 years without increases, with three public hearings on the change drawing zero attendees.

The board voted 5-0 to designate Tyngsborough a Purple Heart Community, approving a proclamation and anticipating entry signs costing under $400, and voted 5-0 to pause the Economic Development Advisory Committee pending progress from the newly formed Middlesex and Westford Road Strategic Visioning Committee. A $368,000 year-end budget transfer, drawn entirely from health insurance savings, was approved 5-0 to cover snow and ice, library sprinkler, and other overages.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of July 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.