On August 29, 2007, the North Adams Transcript described the Cable Mills project as “a state model for how the Community Preservation Act can work,” writing, “With affordable housing, a publicly-accessible walkway along the Green River and preservation of a historic mill building, the project has created a Community Preservation Act triple play.”

This project involves the use of $1.5 million in CPA funds to construct 12 apartments that will be set aside for homebuyers at or below 80% of the areawide median income; create a publicly accessible riverwalk that will stretch the entire length of the nine-acre site along the Green River; and place historic preservation easements on the three original mill buildings to be revitalized, the last remaining remnants of Williamstown’s industrial past.