Redevelopment Authority votes to explore digital sign for growing industrial park

Mar 3, 2022

The Wareham Redevelopment Authority voted to explore options for digital signage at the town’s industrial park off Kendrick Road during its Thursday morning meeting.

Having a sign that can change to advertise a number of open businesses down that stretch of road would be helpful, several board members agreed.

“Something to change the dynamic there,” chair Peter Teitelbaum said. “It’s not just manufacturing.”

Clerk Ken Buckland said he’d spoken to Dan Minkle of Minkle Boys Catering, who had shared his interest in improving the current sign in front of the industrial park.

The digital sign could be paid for by several businesses going in together on the sign, board members said.

Teitelbaum said the town was seeing more craft consumer goods businesses set up shop in the area, like Stone Path Malt, seasonal food truck Sola’s Disco Dumplings and Trade Roots, Wareham’s newest dispensary.

Buckland said a new crumpet manufacturer will be entering the space as well, adding to the area’s food manufacturers.

Member Judith Whiteside and Town Administrator Derek Sullivan were absent from Thursday’s meeting, as Whiteside was not feeling well and Sullivan was attending a finance committee meeting, Teitelbaum said.

With two of the group’s five members absent, the redevelopment authority didn’t vote on other topics, like the creation of a citizen’s advisory committee for the downtown urban renewal plan, or the future of signage at the Tremont Nail Factory. Most topics were tabled to be discussed at next week’s meeting.