Holyoke Innovation District

During a 2009 meeting in (former) Mayor Sullivan’s office, local, regional and state leaders were reviewing historic maps of Holyoke’s “canal district” with the hope that the new computing center would be located there. Mayor Sullivan began calling it the “Innovation District” as a way to link the history of Holyoke, one of the nation’s first planned industrial cities, and the future home of computing power for researchers from 5 prestigious research universities. Read on...