{"id":8,"date":"2007-12-23T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-06-24T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:17:50","slug":"village-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/village-hill","title":{"rendered":"Village Hill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/071222.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northampton State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"214\" \/><br \/>\nNot content with merely eradicating the historic Old Main building at the former <a title=\"Northampton State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/northampton\/\">Northampton State Hospital<\/a>, <a title=\"MassDevelopment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massdevelopment.com\">MassDevelopment<\/a> has changed the name of the development property from Village at Hospital Hill to Village Hill Northampton. According to <a title=\"Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massdevelopment.com\/press\/11022007-01.aspx\">their press release<\/a>, the name was changed &#8220;<em>to mark the birth of a new community and a new use for the former hospital grounds.<\/em>&#8221; As Fred Contrada reports in <a title=\"Hospital Hill Ghosts Restless Over Change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/hampfrank\/republican\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-12\/119787970174810.xml&amp;coll=1&amp;thispage=1\">a recent article<\/a> on stigma, marketing, and &#8220;wiping out history&#8221;, their reason is a little less lofty than that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with merely eradicating the historic Old Main building at the former Northampton State Hospital, MassDevelopment has changed the name of the development property from Village at Hospital Hill to Village Hill Northampton. According to their press release, the name was changed &#8220;to mark the birth of a new community and a new use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[8,9,47],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","tag-northampton","tag-northampton-state-hospital","tag-stigma"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}