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[ Originally published on: Friday, October 02, 2009 ]
GREENFIELD -- The developer who plans to turn an old Turners Falls church into a performing arts center and a Millers Falls church into her home, also wants to turn a former rest home on Montague City Road into a 10-room bed and breakfast.
Jordan Quinn, who purchased the former Pioneer Valley Rest Home at 148 Montague City Road earlier this year and most recently purchased St. John's Church in Millers Falls, will go before the town's Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the police station on High Street to ask for a special permit to turn the rest home, zoned Urban Residential, into a bed and breakfast tourist home.
Quinn said she will show the board architectural drawings and discuss parking spaces. She said she had begun renovating the building, but had to stop recently to begin renovations on the Millers Falls church so that she and her family can move in soon.
Quinn paid $50,000 for the former rest home, according to town assessor records. The property is currently being re-assessed, because it hadn't been since 2005 and the value has dropped since then. The rest home, which closed in spring 2006, has been vacant for more than three years.
