BERLIN — The plan to remediate Dummer Yard landfill provides opportunities to meet some of Berlin’s needs, like middle-class housing and manufacturing space.
Representatives of IFOD Northwoods outlined how their project would remediate the existing Dummer Yard landfill and have space that could help meet what business people and community leaders have identified as some of the city’s pressing needs.
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