When local developer Eric Farrell purchased the Lake Champlain property owned for more than a century by Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, he reached back a half-billion years to name his new development “Cambrian Rise” after the geological time period that shaped this waterfront property on Lake Champlain.
But as Farrell begins work on a 700-unit “sustainable living community,” he’s also having to recast the recent history of a renovated orphanage on the property that was once the home of children who were abused by priests and nuns over many decades.
https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/16/developer-former-burlington-orphanage-looks-future/
https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/16/developer-former-burlington-orphanage-looks-future/
