New Member Joins MCLA Board of Trustees

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Brenda Burdick, senior manager of marketing and public relations at General Dynamics Mission Systems in Pittsfield, as been named the newest member of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Board of Trustees.

MCLA President James F. Birge said he is pleased to welcome Burdick to the board.

"Brenda Burdick brings more than 25 years of experience in business communications and marketing – as well as public, community, and government relations – to MCLA's Board of Trustees," Birge said. "Through her extensive community service throughout the Berkshires, which includes her work with the Berkshire Compact for Education and as a corporator on the MCLA Foundation, she is dedicated to helping others who live in this region. I look forward to working with her as she joins us to continue to advance the work of the college."

Burdick joined General Dynamics in Pittsfield in 1995, when she began work at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. In 2002, Burdick became the marketing and public relations manager for General Dynamics Mission Systems, before she assumed the position of senior manager of marketing and public relations for the company in 2014.


Previous to her work with General Dynamics, Burdick was the director of sales and marketing for Swift River Inn in Cummington, and was both a sales manager and a public relations assistant for Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, in Lenox.

Burdick earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration with a double major in business communications and marketing from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I.

From 2008-17, Burdick was a member of the Berkshire United Way board of directors serving as its chairperson, 2013-15, and vice chairperson, 2015-17 and 2011-13. She was also a member of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce board of directors since 2009 and currently serves as an executive committee member of 1Berkshire.
 
Burdick also is a board member of the Berkshire Music School, an advisory board member of the Berkshire Innovation Center, a corporator for the MCLA Foundation, an advisory board member of the Berkshire Compact for Education.

 


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Macksey Updates on Eagle Street Demo and Myriad City Projects

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

The back of Moderne Studio in late January. The mayor said the city had begun planning for its removal if the owner could not address the problems. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Moderne Studio building is coming down brick by brick on Eagle Street on the city's dime. 
 
Concerns over the failing structure's proximity to its neighbor — just a few feet — means the demolition underway is taking far longer than usual. It's also been delayed somewhat because of recent high winds and weather. 
 
The city had been making plans for the demolition a month ago because of the deterioration of the building, Mayor Jennifer Macksey told the City Council on Tuesday. The project was accelerated after the back of the 150-year-old structure collapsed on March 5
 
Initial estimates for demolition had been $190,000 to $210,000 and included asbestos removal. Those concerns have since been set aside after testing and the mayor believes that the demolition will be lower because it is not a hazardous site.
 
"We also had a lot of contractors who came to look at it for us to not want to touch it because of the proximity to the next building," she said. "Unfortunately time ran out on that property and we did have the building failure. 
 
"And it's an unfortunate situation. I think most of us who have lived here our whole lives and had our pictures taken there and remember being in the window so, you know, we were really hoping the building could be safe."
 
Macksey said the city had tried working with the owner, who could not find a contractor to demolish the building, "so we found one for him."
 
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