Strategic Planning in the Community and the Courts

The City of Holyoke is located in the Western part of Massachusetts just north of Springfield between the mountains of Western Massachusetts and the Connecticut River. Holyoke was primarily a farming community until the mid-nineteenth century. Situated on the Hadley Falls, where the river drops almost 60 feet, “Holyoke became a prime location for the textile and paper mills that transformed this rural backwater into a hub of New England's industrial economy.” ¹